Trying to get Seagate FreeAgent Drive mounted in Fedora 8

2468101214 · 11-11-2008, 10:56 PM

Ok I am new to Linux and I have a 500 gig FreeAgent Drive, which has 300-350 gigs worth of movies and music on the drive. i have always used this drive with Windows but vista has crashed on me and i dont want to spend the money to get a restore disk. Any way when i connect my drive it says it is unable to mount i have search the internet for bout 2 days now looking for solutions but have found little to help me. Any and all help will be apperciated.

thanks
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John VV · 11-12-2008, 01:09 AM

on fedora as root make a folder in /mnt called windows and install ntfs-3g ( not installed by default in fedora 8 )

yum install ntfs-3g

plug the drive into the cable and reboot then run

Code:

su -
root password
mkdir /mnt/windows 
fdisk -l

-- in this output should be the drive , most likely sdb?
-- if it did not auto mount then

Code:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb? /mnt/windows

-- replace sdb? with the drive number

2468101214 · 11-12-2008, 06:01 PM

Thank you John VV for your help i finally have the External up and running.

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