Need Help: Mounting An External Hard Drive on Ubuntu 10.04

michaelk · 06-16-2012, 06:41 AM

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Using Ubuntu 10:04, I've ran these commands and received this info.

sudo fdisk -1

Disk /dev/sda: 4007 MB, 4007657472 bytes
86 heads, 22 sectors/track, 4137 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1892 * 512 = 968704 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 5 4138 3909696 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x38f6cb08

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 19458 156288000 7 HPFS/NTFS

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -l
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
aufs 997764 85004 912760 9% /
none 991848 252 991596 1% /dev
/dev/sda1 3907760 727504 3180256 19% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 676480 676480 0 100% /rofs
none 997764 112 997652 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 997764 12 997752 1% /tmp
none 997764 88 997676 1% /var/run
none 997764 4 997760 1% /var/lock
/dev/sdb1 156287996 98231296 58056700 63% /media/5656A88956A86C05

sda is your flash drive. I can not tell but assume that sdb is your internal Vista drive and sdc is the external drive. With what you posted from the output of the dmesg command sdc may be unreadable.

2sassy · 06-17-2012, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by michaelk

sda is your flash drive. I can not tell but assume that sdb is your internal Vista drive and sdc is the external drive. With what you posted from the output of the dmesg command sdc may be unreadable.

Yeah. I've done everything I can think of and I've come to that conclusion also. Oh, well... I learned something anyway. Thanks for helping me out michaelk.