external hard drive mounting.

gonus · 08-12-2004, 08:54 PM

I have an external usb drive. I would like to be abel to use it with debian. I have installed sg3-utils. I run sg_map to see the devices. I see2.

/dev/sg0 /dev/sda

I added the following to my fstab.

/dev/sda /hd fat32 rw,user,noauto 0 0

when i try to mount it tells me that mount point /hd does not exsist. What can I do? I would like to keep the data on the hd.

zuralin · 08-12-2004, 09:29 PM

mkdir /hd

gonus · 08-12-2004, 10:25 PM

closer. when i attempt to mount i get this.

mount: fs type fat32 not supported by kernel

I tried auto and vfat still gettign nothing.

gonus · 08-14-2004, 10:32 AM

/wooooot

I got it. it needed to be /sda1 not jsut sda

this is what my fstab entry for this device looks like.

/dev/sda1 /hd vfat noauto,user,rw 1 0

novice_techie · 08-25-2004, 09:30 PM

thanks! your posts on mouting the external hard drive helped me get mine up and running!

gonus · 08-27-2004, 03:51 PM

Great thats the first time i got to help someone.