hey guys, i have fedora 2 & its totaly updated as of 3 mins ago. ive been trying to mount my usb hdd but i havehad no luck. plus 3 of the guides or wat not deal with formattig the hdd, i have 73 gb of datta that cant be lost, the hdd has a single extended partition formatted with fat32, as to have read/write compatability with win xp pro & fedora core 2. please advise~

First you plug your USB hard drive in your USB port. Then open a terminal. Type su, to switch to root user. Once you are root, do a fdisk -l to see where the hard drive is. It should produce results in form of /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 (these are the lines of your primary harddisk. The USB harddrive should be /dev/sda1 or seomthing starting with sd. If it's not, just analyse what the harddrives in your computer are.

Like for example. You know you only have one harddisk in your computer. That one is certainly /dev/hdax (where x are the numbers of partitions). IF you have two harddisks in your computer, then the second one is /dev/hdbx and the third one is /dev/hdc..... and so on.

Just eliminate the ones you know are not the USB harddrive. But as I said, the USB harddrive should be like /dev/sda1. Also in the line of that, you see the filesystem type of that drive. In your case it should say FAT something.

SO remember, just switch to root, and "fdisk -l" to see where it is.

Once you know where it is, and what filesystem type it is, you just have to mount it. To do that, you first need to create a directory.

mkdir /myusbdisk (this creates the directory)

and then just mount it there with the command:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /myusbdisk

This is true, if you find it at /dev/sda1 and it is FAT filesystem.

Then just navigate to the directory /myusbdisk and there is your data. If you want to make it auto mount, just edit your /etc/fstab file. Just follow the examples already in it. Copy a line and change it to suit your needs.

Good luck!

You cant loose any of your data, with this. Mounting does not touch the harddisk at all.

Peace!

i triedthe fdisk -l as per my cuz's instructions, lol then saw ur so i did it. it only recognizes my internal, no usb hdd...dunno

Which kernel are you running?

You can see that by typing:

uname -r

Also try this:

cat /proc/modules | grep hcd

This should produce some output if you have USB support in your kernel.

yay, guys, lol, that was gay. but yea i got it workin. im runnin the 2.6 versionof linuz kernel. but i got it runnin, imma look up how again, my friend apocrafiend told me how to. i plan to gete it & post it for others in a day or few hrs.