frank@frank-desktop:~$ sudo /bin/ls -l /dev/sdb
[sudo] password for frank:
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 2010-05-27 11:38 /dev/sdb
frank@frank-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00032f01
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 19457 156288321 83 Linux
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:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/frank/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=frank)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/_dev_sdb1_ type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit)
frank@frank-desktop:~$ sudo df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ext4 71G 3.5G 64G 6% /
udev tmpfs 470M 252K 470M 1% /dev
none tmpfs 470M 136K 470M 1% /dev/shm
none tmpfs 470M 288K 470M 1% /var/run
none tmpfs 470M 0 470M 0% /var/lock
none tmpfs 470M 0 470M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sdb1 ext2 147G 61M 140G 1% /media/_dev_sdb1_
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/testfile
touch: cannot touch `/mnt/testfile': Permission denied
frank@frank-desktop:~$ sudo touch /mnt/testfile
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:~$
Still no luck thanks for trying
Frank.
