Please read my fstab and then help please!
I have 3 windows partition on an external USB drive (2x ntfs 1 x fat32) and also my main windows partitions. When I first installed SuSE10.1 I was able to mount the USB partitions via various KDE GUI's now I can't, it doesn't exist apparently yet /dev/sda6 appears in my fstab!
I would like them all to mount at boot with the fat32 mounting r+w. Here's my fstab can anyone help? Thanks in advance Steve /dev/hda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda7 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,user,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda1 /windows/E ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/hda5 /windows/F ntfs ro,user,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda5 /windows/G ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda6 /windows/H vfat user,users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 |
Hi,
could you please do the following and let us know if you see any output: ls /dev | grep 'sda6' |
Cheers SlackDaemon. I'm at work at the moment but will do it as soon as I get in.
Cheers Steve |
The output of "fdisk -l" is valuable too.
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steve@linux-sexo:~> ls /dev | grep 'sda6'
steve@linux-sexo:~> ls /dev | grep sda6 steve@linux-sexo:~> fdisk -l bash: fdisk: command not found steve@linux-sexo:~> mmm didn't seem to get much with those commands. Have I done somethings wrong? Thanks again Steve |
The command: ls /dev | grep sda6
Should have listed anything that is named "sda6" in your /dev directory I would have thought. The apostrophes you placed either side of sda6 in your first command there would of course result in not much at all. |
Do you actually have a directory called "windows" at the top level of your Linux file system?
If so, are there actually C, D, E, F, G and H directories within that "windows" directory? Is the file system being mounted from 'sda1' visible in your Linux environment? What I mean by that is can you 'cd' to /windows/E? or can you see an icon for sda1 when in KDE? |
Your OS does not seem to be picking up your USB device otherwise the ls /dev | grep 'sda6' or ls -l /dev/sda6 command would have given you some output.
You cannot run the 'fdisk -l' command while logged in as a regular user. You can run it as root. Try disconnecting your USB device and re-attaching it to your PC. Then check 'dmesg' and 'tail /var/log/messages'. If you see a warning message like 'device sdaX not accepting address <number>' that means your device is not being identified by the OS. I have had a similar problem with my flash drive. Once I switched to an updated kernel version it was picking up fine. Note that it might just be a hardware problem too (your USB port maybe damaged). best of luck! |
sorry guys, sorted it, my usb drive is f@#ked. bollocks!:mad:
After I've bought a new one(:mad:) what line in the fstab should I be looking for to get it to mount at boot? Steve |
Login as root and then type fdisk -l or dmesg | tail. Check on which "port" your device is in. Then create a folder in /mnt for example under the name usb. After that you can mount the usb device as: mount -t vfat /dev/sd_yours_here /mnt/usb
Edit the fstab as follow: /dev/sda_yours_here /mnt/usb vfat noauto,rw,user,umask=1000 0 0 Then it will be mounted every time you boot your system, or by simple opening the folder or by typing just mount /mnt/usb. In that way worked mine. I hope I helped you. |
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