Can't transfer files or directories

fcvc10 · 05-21-2010, 03:29 AM

I have installed external hard drive to my computer running
Ubuntu 9.10 took a while to format it,but I just can not transfer
files or directories,any help would be appreciated.
Thanks Frank

catkin · 05-21-2010, 03:37 AM

Does it have a entry in /etc/fstab? If so what does it look like? How did you mount it?

How are you trying to transfer files? What happens when you do that?

fcvc10 · 05-22-2010, 02:45 AM

Hard drive mounted on desktop /dev/sbd1/
when I double click on it, it will come up
with "Folder Browser"with subfolders
Catalod,Internal,Lost+founde,Pending
if I try to save something to /dev/sbd1
It will come up with the following message
unable to savemessage please check your file
name and try again later.
Thanks Frank

catkin · 05-22-2010, 04:21 AM

What does the mount command show when it is mounted? What happens if you try to create a file on it with a simple name like test.txt?

fuubar2003 · 05-22-2010, 02:00 PM

Can you paste the exact error you receive because the error you posted cannot be correct. Are you able to copy a file via commandline? Can you create a new file on the new volume via:
# touch testfile

fcvc10 · 05-23-2010, 06:21 AM

Hard drive mounted on desktop /dev/sbd1/
when I double click on it, it will come up
with "Folder Browser"with subfolders
Catalod,Internal,Lost+founde,Pending
if I try to save something to /dev/sbd1
It will come up with the following message
unable to savemessage please check your file
name and try again later.
Thanks Frank
This is the message comes up when I try to save a file
media/_dev_sdb1_/search-html_files/MyListsIFrame.html could not be saved,
because an unknown error occurred.
Try saving to a different location.

catkin · 05-23-2010, 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fcvc10

media/_dev_sdb1_/search-html_files/MyListsIFrame.html could not be saved,
because an unknown error occurred.

This is not going to be easy. It may be caused by hardware problems, file system corruption or ... we don't know yet. You will have to give us a lot of information to help us to analyse the problem to help you. Some of the questions may seem irrelevant, maybe even annoying. Some of the answers may turn out not to be needed in the end.

Are you OK at the command line? All the information given so far seems to come from the graphical environment.

fcvc10 · 05-24-2010, 01:01 AM

About your question
Are you OK at the command line?
Not sure what are you getting at
Thanks Frank

catkin · 05-24-2010, 02:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fcvc10

About your question
Are you OK at the command line?

Are you OK with starting a terminal and typing in commands at the prompt?

business_kid · 05-24-2010, 05:30 AM

Methinks if it's showing as /dev/sdb1 on the desktop, it is not mounted. Try
cat /etc/mtab
which shows you currently mounted disks. To mount it manually
sudo mount .dev/sdb1 /mnt/somewhere - and somewhere must exist as a directory

fcvc10 · 05-25-2010, 01:36 AM

frank@frank-desktop:~$ sudo mount .dev/sdb1 /mnt/
mount: special device .dev/sdb1 does not exist
frank@frank-desktop:~$

No luck so far.

fcvc10 · 05-25-2010, 01:43 AM

Are you OK with starting a terminal and typing in commands at the prompt?
The answer is yes
Frank.

catkin · 05-25-2010, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fcvc10

frank@frank-desktop:~$ sudo mount .dev/sdb1 /mnt/
mount: special device .dev/sdb1 does not exist

There was a typo in business_kid's post. It should have been

Code:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/

Assuming you are happy to run commands at the command prompt, what is the output of

Code:

/bin/ls -l /dev/sdb*
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
cat /etc/fstab
sudo mount dev/sdb1 /mnt/
mount
sudo df -hT
/bin/ls -al /mnt
touch /mnt/testfile
sudo touch /mnt/testfile
id
sudo id

fcvc10 · 05-26-2010, 02:15 AM

frank@frank-desktop:~$ /bin/ls-l /dev/sdb1
bash: /bin/ls-l: No such file or directory
frank@frank-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
frank@frank-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=4ba59f3b-7bb8-445e-ac95-e9374ca6fdec / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=bd7f5d85-b932-49a2-b1f4-f118f9df1209 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
frank@frank-desktop:~$ sudo mount dev/sdb1 /mnt/
mount: special device dev/sdb1 does not exist
frank@frank-desktop:~$ mountsudo df -hT
mountsudo: command not found
frank@frank-desktop:~$ /bin/ls -al /mnt
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-05-26 17:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2010-05-19 16:41 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-05-26 17:04 testfile
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-05-19 18:06 usbdrive
frank@frank-desktop:~$ touch /mnt/testfilesudo touch /mnt/testfile
touch: cannot touch `/mnt/testfilesudo': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch `/mnt/testfile': Permission denied
frank@frank-desktop:~$ id
uid=1000(frank) gid=1000(frank) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),104(lpadmin),115(admin),120(sambashare),1000(frank)
frank@frank-desktop:~$ sudo id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
frank@frank-desktop:~$

evo2 · 05-26-2010, 02:22 AM

You are missing some spaces in some of the commands you are typing: eg

Code:

sudo mount

not

Code:

sudomount

and

Code:

ls -l

not

Code:

ls-l

Please repeat the commands (without typos) requested by catkin.

Cheers,

Evo2.