External hard drive mount

[ubunick]

I know this is the ubuntu forums but the command for mounting a hard drive should be the same, right? Well, opensuse 10.2 isn't showing my seagate 80gb external drive and I'm not sure if I'm suppose to mount it or something.. your thoughts?

Thaaaanks.

[taurus]

You have to log in as root and then do


mkdir /mnt/harddrive
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/harddrive

p.s. And move over to the suse area.

[chronusdark]

what filesystem is your external drive

i have a Western digital 500 GB My Book Essential and it loads automatically with all linux's i have tried

assuming your drive is ext3

sudo mkdir /media/External
sudo mount -t <filesystem> /dev/<insert device name here (ie. sdb1) /media/External

when you plug in your drive it should show the device name in your dmesg
if its a USB drive its probably vfat filesystem

[ubunick]

The device is called "ST380011A 8.01" in my boot options but.. I get this error when I put that in the terminal:



sudo mount -t vfat /dev/ST380011A 8.01/media/External
mount: mount point 8.01/media/External does not exist

[taurus]

What's the output of this command from a terminal (as root)?


fdisk -l

[ubunick]

I fixed it. Thanks anyways.

[ub-noob]

I fixed it. Thanks anyways.

Can you tell us how you fixed it? I am unable to mount my external HDD too.

Thanks.

[onux16]

ubunick said he typed:
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/ST380011A 8.01/media/External

I'm just beginning to play with the linux terminal, so I'm not well versed, but I do believe he should have a \ before any spaces in a name. In addition, he never placed a space after 8.01, making it a part if the next command.

Shouldn't it look more like this?
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/ST380011A\ 8.01 /media/External

[kraymore]

i have a external hard drive formatted as ext3 through gparted. gparted in ubuntu sees it as /dev/sdb1 however the following does not work for me:

avis@desktop:~$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /media/disk
[sudo] password for avis:
mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist

it is also not listed under 'df' however gparted see's it fine.

not sure what to do to get it recognized.

[hetLemming]

You have to log in as root and then do


mkdir /mnt/harddrive
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/harddrive



I did this, but now my mount point is only writable by root. How can I make it so regular users can write to this mount point?

"sudo chmod a+w /mnt/harddrive" doesn't work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[lespaul_rentals]

I did this, but now my mount point is only writable by root. How can I make it so regular users can write to this mount point?

"sudo chmod a+w /mnt/harddrive" doesn't work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


sudo chmod 777 /mnt/<mountpoint>

[Deathmoon]

you will want to do


sudo chmod -R 777 /media/external

The -R parameter gives full permissions to all files/folders within the drive.