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02-14-2017, 02:10 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2017
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mounting
hello every one
i am new in linux
i have a 500 GB hard disk and i can not open that....
it shows a massage "unable to mount location" i searched a lot of in youtube but i didn't find the solution please help me.
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02-14-2017, 02:20 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2014
Location: Montreal, Quebec and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia CANADA
Distribution: Arch, AntiX, ArtiX
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Hey murtazajan - welcome to linux. A couple of details would help: is the 500 GB disk you are trying to mount internal or external. Do you know what file system it is formatted to (ex. ext4, FAT32, NTFS ...) ? What version (distro) of linux are you using ? Have you tried looking at your distro's instructions / wiki for mounting volumes ? Have you looked at the manual for the mount command ($ man mount) ? Do you know what your fstab file is and can you show us the contents of this file ? Have you checked to see that the system recognizes that the device is attached and has assigned it a block id (for example /dev/sdb ...) by using ( $ lsblk ... or # blkid) ?
Let's start with that.
Cheers :-)
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02-14-2017, 02:23 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Distribution: SuSE, RedHat, Slack,CentOS
Posts: 27,805
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Quote:
Originally Posted by murtazajan
hello every one
i am new in linux
i have a 500 GB hard disk and i can not open that....
it shows a massage "unable to mount location" i searched a lot of in youtube but i didn't find the solution please help me.
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Read the "Question Guidelines" link in my posting signature. We can try to help, but you have to provide details; based on what you posted, there isn't anything we can tell you. You don't tell us what version/distro of Linux, anything about your hardware, how that disk is connected, where you're seeing that message, what you've done/tried, etc. Tell us exactly what you're doing, and help us help you.
Also, YouTube IS NOT a good/reliable source of information.
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02-14-2017, 05:15 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2010
Location: Near Edinburgh, Scotland
Distribution: Cinnamon Mint 20.1 (Laptop) and 20.2 (Desktop)
Posts: 1,711
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it shows a massage "unable to mount location"
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Exactly what location are you trying to mount the disk to? I'd reckon you'd get this message from trying to mount your disk to one of the primary system directories (/, /usr, /etc, /dev, /proc...) as, were it possible, you'd lose system access to vital system files!
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Play Bonny!

Last edited by Soadyheid; 02-14-2017 at 05:16 PM.
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