Hi All,

I've have been playing around mounting ISO movies, and found that my external HDDs now won't mount. I run UBUNTU Lucid Lynx, and want to change distros, but need to put everything to my external drives before that change.

What should I run in Shell?

Thanks in advance for the help.

For what? Mounting the partitions? In general,

mount device mount point,

where device is the device node to mount (something like /dev/sdb1) and mount point is a directory in the filesystem oh which you want to mount the partition. Since you're running Ubuntu, you'll need to put "sudo" in front (i.e. "sudo mount ..."). You might need to specify other options like the filesystem in use on the partition. See the man page for mount for more details..

If that's not what you're wanting to do, please tell us what it is you do want. You said that your external disks aren't mounting. Are there error messages when you try to mount them? If so, what are they?

Nylex,

Thanks for your reply. You obviously know what you are talking about.

When I plug in either of my USB Seagate storage drives I get the error message "Unable to mount FreeAgent drive - Error creating moint point: No such file or directory.

When I open my /Home folder the Seagate drive appears



But, I still get the same error message.

I have tried drilling down into my file system per your suggestion, but can't get to the right shell / command line. Or, if I have found where this drive actually shows up. LOL!

I want to move my data from my 500Gb HDD notebook to my 1Tb Seagate drive to change my OS.

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Bump.

A screenshot of the error message itself would have been more useful. Normally Ubuntu mounts external USB drive in the /media/ folder. Did this folder got deleted accidentally? Post the output of
ls -l

Connect your external HDD and after plugging it in issue
and also post the output of the last command.

run Find which disk you're trying to mount, if its not listed in fdisk then the machine isn't seeing your disks partitions.

Once you find what you need in fdisk, you have to create a folder to mount that drive on. Yes the drives sits in a folder.

So go back in terminal and type

slimg00dy,

I've run "sudo fdisk -l", and get the following:

jjmacey@jjm-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for jjmacey:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00039e40

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 59767 480075776 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 59767 60802 8308737 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 59767 60802 8308736 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xeec787db

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS
jjmacey@jjm-laptop:~$

Can you / others help me along? I don't seem to be able to see my Seagate 500 Gb / 1 Tb Drives. Although it does show up in my /home folder on the left hand side panel, but when I try to open it I get the error message "Unable To Mount FreeAgent Drive, error creating mount point: no such file or directory.

I'm trying to move things from my Lappy to my storage devices to do a fresh install of other Linux distros to see what is new or what suits me best.

TIA for help!

Have you tried mounting the 1 TB drive using the command line, with the commands suggested by slimg00dy? If you're still trying to do it using the GUI, then you need to find out what the mount point is and create that directory. To find what the mount point setting is, maybe you can right click the device and maybe there's a "Properties" entry in that menu. I don't know, I don't use a GUI for mounting devices. A mount point may also have been put in the /etc/fstab file, so perhaps post that here too.

Nylex,

No, that didn't seem to work. Although that should. Terminal has always worked.

On a separate, but similar note I seem to need to create a Mount Point. I was trying to mount an ISO movie. Please see that attached image.



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How I did this to myself I'll never know. LOL!

Thanks for jumping in here!

Best Regards,

JJMacey

What is the content of /proc/mounts when the FreeAgent drive is browsed from what you showed after "When I open my /Home folder the Seagate drive appears"?

It looks like your external drive uses the NTFS filesystem.
Check that you have the ntfs-3g package installed.

You will need to create a mount point to mount the filesystem over, if it isn't being done automatically. e.g.
sudo mkdir /mnt/seagate

Then you can use a command like this to mount the filesystem:
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/seagate -o uid=<yourusername>,gid=<yourusername>,fmask=0117,dmask=007

If this is a new external drive, or you don't care for what is on it currently, I would recommend formatting it with a native Linux filesystem. That way the ownership and properties of files will be preserved when you backup. Otherwise, I would use tar to back up the files, so that the permissions are preserved.

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For your question about mounting iso images, simply create a directory in your home directory, and use that as the mount point.

You can use either that graphical program, or mount it manually. E.G.:
mkdir ~/image
sudo mount -t iso9660 <filename.iso> image/ -o ro,loop

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Gentlemen,

I would like to thank you for your help!

jschiwal,

Your response gave me the answer. In terminal I ran:

jjmacey@jjm-laptop:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/seagate
[sudo] password for jjmacey:
jjmacey@jjm-laptop:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/seagate -o uid=jjmacey,gid=jjmacey,fmask=0117,dmask=007
jjmacey@jjm-laptop:~$

Then when to:


By jjmacey at 2010-11-15

I launched "/mnt" and there was my drive:


By jjmacey at 2010-11-15

Thanks for the help.

I'd like to thank you all for your support!

JJmacey