how to mount a external hard drive in ext3 format?

kuertensun · 09-05-2005, 02:11 PM

what command shall I use?

thanks.

aysiu · 09-05-2005, 02:19 PM

So the external hard drive is already formatted as ext3?
I believe the command would be something like

mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/harddrive

That would be assuming, of course, that you'd already created a directory in media called "harddrive" and that the device was plugged in as "sda1" (it could be sda2 or sdb1 or sde1, etc.).

Debian doesn't automount it?

kuertensun · 09-05-2005, 02:26 PM

I have tried this but it didn't work there is a message says can't find ext3 filesystem on the device but I indeed formatted a ext3 filesystem on the hard drive.

aysiu · 09-05-2005, 02:31 PM

What happens when you type fdisk -l in the terminal?

kuertensun · 09-05-2005, 02:39 PM

nothing appears

aysiu · 09-05-2005, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kuertensun
nothing appears

Nothing at all, or just the external hard drive?

kuertensun · 09-05-2005, 02:58 PM

nothing at all just another command prompt

tomj88 · 09-05-2005, 03:48 PM

are you running the fdisk -l command as root?

kuertensun · 09-05-2005, 03:53 PM

yes exactly.

aysiu · 09-05-2005, 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kuertensun
nothing at all just another command prompt

Something's seriously wrong, then, not just with mounting your external hard drive. Your regular Linux partition should show up.

For example, when I type it in, I get this:

Code:

 sudo fdisk -l
Password:

Disk /dev/hda: 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/hda1   *           1        1911    15350076    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1912       18494   133202947+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3           18495       19457     7735297+  83  Linux
/dev/hda5            1912       14763   103233658+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6   *       14764       16434    13422276   83  Linux
/dev/hda7           18363       18494     1060258+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda8           16435       18362    15486628+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

/dev/hda6 is the Linux partition I'm currently using. The fdisk -l command lists all the partitions and devices, mounted and unmounted.

b0nd · 09-06-2005, 02:09 AM

Hi,
absolutely don't have any idea that why "fdisk -l" is not showing anything.
since you don't know the mounting procedure so i'm just forwarding a link for that..........its really a good one.

here

regards

kuertensun · 09-06-2005, 08:36 AM

thanks, i will read about it.

nédée · 09-06-2005, 06:51 PM

the way i mounted was

first check the hard disk

code:
su
fdisk /dev/hdb <-- if it is your second harddisk

Code:
mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1 or
mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/hdb1

so now it is called hdb1 and you can mount it

Code:
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb <-- be sure that dir exists