Hard drives fail to mount.
I modified the /etc/stab file so that I could see some of the other partitions on the other HDs in my Pc but when I click on the drive icons I get the error:
Could not mount device: The reported error was: mount:mount point /mnt/sdc6 does not exist (where sdc6 is the HD partition that I am trying to read. I get a similar error if I try and read a CD or a DVD. It says: mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was speciified. |
Could you please post the contents of /etc/fstab ?
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OK here is my fstab file.
I use this one here just to detect the main drives. # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sdd1 /media/usbdisk vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy1 auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder1 auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrecorder2 auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/sdb6 /mnt/sdb6 vfat users,umask=0000 0 0 /dev/sdb8 /mnt/sdb8 vfat users,umask=0000 0 0 When I am booting it says that it failed to mount sdb8??? I then tried this fstab file which I picked up from a bootable CD and I deleted some of the ntfs drives because they just contain windows xp and FC4 does not need to read or write to those. # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 /proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /sys /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0 #/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 #/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1 auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 /dev/cdromhda /mnt/auto/cdromhda auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 /dev/cdromhdb /mnt/auto/cdromhdb auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,noatime,users,exec,umask=000,uid=studio,gid=studio 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ext3 noauto,noatime,users,exec 0 0 /dev/sdb3 /mnt/sdb3 auto noauto,noatime,users,exec 0 0 /dev/sdb5 none swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sdb6 /mnt/sdb6 ext3 noauto,noatime,users,exec 0 0 /dev/sdb7 /mnt/sdb7 auto noauto,noatime,users,exec 0 0 /dev/sdc6 /mnt/sdc6 vfat noauto,noatime,users,exec,umask=000,uid=studio,gid=studio 0 0 /dev/sdc8 /mnt/sdc8 vfat noauto,noatime,users,exec,umask=000,uid=studio,gid=studio 0 0 /dev/sdc9 /mnt/sdc9 vfat noauto,noatime,users,exec,umask=000,uid=studio,gid=studio 0 0 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/sdd1 vfat noauto,noatime,users,exec,umask=000,uid=studio,gid=studio 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy2 auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder6 auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrecorder7 auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 Thanks for any help that you can provide. |
Do you have a directory named /mnt/sdc6 ? There are 2 major steps to mounting a device.
1) Putting an enrty in your fstab for it. 2) Making a physical directory where you want the filesystem to be "mounted", or put. Go to /mnt and see if you have any directories there, specifically ones named the same as in your fstab for devices you want to mount. Example: I want to mount my windows XP hard drive. I need to first specify in the fstab to mount the drive, whatever it might be. (see diagram of an fstab entry below) Code:
Name of device Path to where the filesystem will go Filesystem type Other stuff that's not important now. Code:
ls -a /mnt/sdc6 Code:
mkdir /mnt/sdc6 |
Thanks rodm13, I'll try that later and see what happens. I'll let you know how I get on in the next couple of days or so.
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