Install second drive in debian

flycast · 11-18-2006, 07:28 PM

I have a Seagate USB external drive that I have used with my Ubuntu distro. I abandoned Ubunto for Debian. Now I want to use that data on that usb drive. I am having the hardest time finding a good tutorial or help on how to set up my usb drive to be mounted automatically.

When I do an fdisk I can see my partition.
When I try to mount the drive I get "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other error in some cases useful info id found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so"

What do I do next?

Panagiotis_IOA · 11-18-2006, 07:45 PM

Normally the "fdisk -l" command should list all your driver with their partitions. Have you tried "dmesg | tail" ?

flycast · 11-18-2006, 10:13 PM

fdisk -l does not give me anything.

Here is the output of dmesg | tail:

Quote:

debian:/# dmesg | tail
EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted !
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.27-3-386
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,0)): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 880 not in group (block 0)!
EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted !
EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,0)): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 880 not in group (block 0)!
EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted !

nadroj · 11-19-2006, 12:47 AM

you said in your first post when you do fdisk you can see your partition can you post that? also, have your drive unplugged, plug it in, then run dmesg | tail and post that. also post the exact command your entering.

Panagiotis_IOA · 11-19-2006, 06:08 AM

Mention that you have to run fdisk -l as root.

flycast · 11-19-2006, 10:19 AM

Yes, I did su root before running all this.
fdisk:

Quote:

debian:/# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 19457 156288321 83 Linux

I wans't sure if you wanted it powered down or the datacable unpluged while it's powered. This is powered down:

Quote:

debian:/# dmesg | tail
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,0)): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 880 not in group (block 0)!
EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted !
EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,0)): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 880 not in group (block 0)!
EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted !
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:1f.2-2 address 2
hub.c: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled
hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-2, assigned address 3
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3

This is after I pulled the data line and plugged it back in:

Quote:

debian:/# dmesg | tail
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:1f.2-2 address 3
hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-2, assigned address 4
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 4
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:1f.2-2 address 4
hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-2, assigned address 5
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 5

Panagiotis_IOA · 11-19-2006, 12:25 PM

Quote:

/dev/sda1 * 1 19457 156288321 83 Linux

This is your external hard disk. Now create a folder where you'd like to mount it, like /mnt/externalHD for example. The type on the console as root:

Code:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/externalHD

You can also add an entry to fstab so it'll be auto-mounted every time you boot your computer.

Note if you plugin a usb flash-disk and then your external drive the drive file will chanage. It should be then /dev/sdb1. If you have the drive working and then plugin a usb flash-disk, then the flash-disk will be /dev/sdb1. You can always check this with fdisk -l.