USB Hard drive mount error

Dayson · 01-08-2005, 04:29 PM

Well I'm really new to linux so I dont have a lot of understanding of what I'm doing really but I need to mount my usb hard drive thats formated in NTFS to get my mp3s. Can someone tell me how to fix this problem? (I did sudo fdisk -l to find out what drive to mount)

This is my error

dayson@Todd:~ $ sudo mount /dev/sda5
mount: can't find /dev/sda5 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Ztyx · 01-08-2005, 05:40 PM

You have to tell which directory to mount your mp3 on. Try:
$ sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/floppy
and then have a look in /mnt/floppy whether the mount was successful or not.

Greetings from sweden,

/J

michaelk · 01-08-2005, 06:34 PM

You do not have an entry in the /etc/fstab file so you need to specify the mount point filesystem type.

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda5 /mnt/usb

Make sure you create the directory first
mkdir /mnt/usb

BTW what distribution are you running? Fedora or Redhat do not include NTFS support it the default installed kernel.

Dayson · 01-09-2005, 12:05 AM

I'm using Ubuntu Distrobution. I did what michaelk said to do and it mounted it but when I try to open it all I get is this error below.

Can not be displayed
"You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "usb".

Can someone tell me what to do now?

michaelk · 01-09-2005, 06:43 AM

Add an entry to the /etc/fstab file

/dev/sda5 /mnt/usb ntfs umask=222,user 0 0

This will give any user read permissions

Dayson · 01-09-2005, 10:32 AM

Awesome thanks man I got it wokring.