Mounting External hd

king87 · 11-03-2007, 08:29 AM

I have an external hd and its file format is ntfs. When I turn it on, there appears a menu asking what to do. But when I say it open the files, it doesn't. I understand that I have to mount it, there is no symbol in the tray also. How can I do that. I am a little bit new at kubuntu. By the way I am using feisty fawn 7.04.

nate6874 · 11-03-2007, 09:38 AM

the HD should be in /dev this is where the default mounting point is.

David1357 · 11-03-2007, 11:06 AM

Is this a USB hard drive? If so, it will show up as[INDENT]/dev/sd?[INDENT]
where "?" will be replaced by a number.

You can mount it by creating a mount point, e.g.

mkdir /mnt/mydrive

and then using "mount", as in

mount -tntfs /dev/sda5 /mnt/mydrive

This will give you read-only access to the drive. If you need read-write access, you will need the ntfs-3g tools:

ntfs-3g

I use the ntfs-3g tools at work all the time with great success.

king87 · 11-04-2007, 05:08 AM

When I use fdisk -l the result is

Quote:

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS

I did what you said but nothing changed.
mkdir /mnt/mydrive
when I use this,
the result is

Quote:

king87@murat:~$ mkdir/mnt/mydrive
bash: mkdir/mnt/mydrive: No such file or directory
king87@murat:~$ mkdir/mnt/Murat~external
bash: mkdir/mnt/Murat~external: No such file or directory
king87@murat:~$ mount -tnfts/dev/sda5/mnt/Murat~external

king87 · 11-04-2007, 05:19 AM

Now there appeared a icon of mount point. When I double clicked it says Unable to enter file:///mnt. You do not have access rights to this location.

David1357 · 11-04-2007, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by king87

When I use fdisk -l the result is

Code:

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS

I did what you said but nothing changed.
mkdir /mnt/mydrive
when I use this,
the result is

Code:

king87@murat:~$ mkdir/mnt/mydrive
bash: mkdir/mnt/mydrive: No such file or directory
king87@murat:~$ mkdir/mnt/Murat~external
bash: mkdir/mnt/Murat~external: No such file or directory
king87@murat:~$ mount -tnfts/dev/sda5/mnt/Murat~external

The first problem I see is that there is no space between "mkdir" and "/mnt/mydrive". The second mistake I see is that there is no space between "mount -tntfs" and "/dev/sda5" and "/mnt/Murat~external". You must separate parameters with spaces.

The third problem I see is that you ran fdisk -l and it shows an hard drive at sdb with an NTFS partition at sdb1, but you are trying to mount sda5.

So you should have typed

Code:

king87@murat:~$ mkdir /mnt/mydrive
king87@murat:~$ mount -tnfts /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mydrive

If these commands do not work, please post the last 50 lines of dmesg, which you can get from

Code:

# dmesg | tail -n 50

If you need to put the output in a file before using it, use

Code:

# dmesg | tail -n 50 > dmesg.txt