Mounted Hi-MD, can't view folders...

otakuprinzess · 05-02-2005, 11:45 PM

Hiyas fancy piper...

I've gotten to know my old friends mount and umount again and have (re-)read through nearly all of the links you've given me.

I tried to create a logical partition on my HiMD unit and found that there was already 1, and it was FAT32. Allow me to show you what fdisk is telling me (hey kids, she learns fast!)...

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 150 253 122720 83 Linux

Okay, so this is something I did manually. Not the greatest thing in the world, but I tried.

Now, I had to restart for this new file system to occur, but everything is still the same. I can view the folders (and they're still there, they're folders/files the HiMD auto creates) and I've umounted /mnt/himd and I've (re)mounted my HiMD with this command:

mount -rw /dev/sdb

And its still a read only drive. Is there anything you can think of that I'm missing?

~Prinzess

fancypiper · 05-03-2005, 12:11 AM

unmount the drive you have mounted

Code:

root@<yourmachine> # umount /mnt/himd

Now, find out exactly how the drive is partitioned

Code:

root@<yourmachine> # fdisk /dev/sdb

Now, use the p command of fdisk to print out for you to see how the disk is actually partitioned up.

Note down what you see. Exit with q if you wish to quit without changing anything, for example you have files there you want to keep or recover.

Make a mountpoint for each partition you found on /dev/sdb

Let's say we found only /dev/sdb1 on that drive and you decide to mount it on /mnt/himd

Code:

root@<yourmachine> # mkdir /mnt/himd
root@<yourmachine> # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/himd
root@<yourmachine> # cd /mnt/himd
root@<yourmachine> # ls

See anything?

If you exit the fdisk program with a w, you write a new partition table to the drive. Then you will have to format (mkfs in Linux) each partition, primary or logical (don't try to format or mount an extended partition), make a mount point, then mount drive.

Tinker around with this, but be careful about your commands because this is all root work. When you have it all figured out, edit your /etc/fstab file to reflect what you have for each physical drive you have attached to your box and where you want to put it on your filesystem.