Ubuntu 9.10 recognizes my Freecom 120gig external hard-drive (when it's plugged in) and I can manage its contents OK - except via the command line. I don't seem to be able to find its path-name. See below:

mike@mike-desktop:~$ cd /media
mike@mike-desktop:/media$ ls
cdrom cdrom0 FREECOM HDD
mike@mike-desktop:/media$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for mike:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb8000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 38174 306632623+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 38175 38913 5936017+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 38175 38913 5935986 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcdffed52

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 14593 117218241 7 HPFS/NTFS
mike@mike-desktop:/media$

Despite all this info, I fail to get into the external hard-drive from the command line. Please provide the obvious solution which is not obvious to me...

Many thanks

Mike

Exactly, what is the mount point?

Is it /media/FREECOM or

Is it /media/FREECOM HDD ?

If it is the later, try doing a cd from /media with this... cd 'FREECOM HDD' and see if you can change to that directory.

If you can not get it to work, post the entry for /dev/sdb from /etc/fstab.

Also watch the case as you type the commands, linux is case sensitive.

@camorri: I assume FREECOM and HDD are two different mount points.

'cd /media/FREECOM/' should get you there.

Try
(note the ")

Thanks for the quick response. None of the following work:

FREECOM
FREECOM HDD
'FREECOM HDD'

Please give second part of your advice in "keystroke-by-keystroke" format.

Your help is much appreciated.
Mike

cd /media/FREECOM*

cd "/media/FREECOM HDD"

should get you there.

Run mount. It will display what devices are mounted, and the mountpoints for each. The mountpoint for your external drive is the base directory of the external drive.
--- rod.

First of all run mount in a Command Terminal. This will show you all devices that are mounted and where they are mounted to.

Second you should try to avoid mounting a drive to a folder with a space in it's name. However if can do so if you choose. Also you should use a proper escape character in the path name instead of quotes. If the drive is Mounted on FREECOM HDD then you should use the following

the \ say to read the next character as a literal. In this case the literal character to be read is a space.

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