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#1 2009-08-21 22:44:10

vinoman2
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Mounting external drive

I tried to plug in my external drive and I get this:

Cannot mount volume. Unable to mount the volume 'FreeAgent Drive'
Cannot get volume.fstype.alternative

I installed # pacman -S autofs
and # modprobe autofs4
I try to understand the instructions in the wiki but it is a bit confusing. I just want the external drive to mount, just like other distros that aren't as cool as Arch wink

but it still doesn't work. what else is needed?

Last edited by vinoman2 (2009-08-22 00:16:01)

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#2 2009-08-22 08:08:31

Dheart
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Re: Mounting external drive

Did you just buy the hard drive? Did you try on windows?
Chances are it either came unformated (and you need to format it)
Or (like mine) came with ntfs file system which wasn't recognized either so I had to do a manual

#pacman -S ntfs-3g
#ntfs-3g /dev/sdX /mnt/mountpoint

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#3 2009-08-22 10:05:46

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Re: Mounting external drive

+1 for what dheart said... have a look at it in gparted


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#4 2009-08-22 11:56:12

vinoman2
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Re: Mounting external drive

Dheart wrote:

Did you just buy the hard drive? Did you try on windows?
Chances are it either came unformated (and you need to format it)
Or (like mine) came with ntfs file system which wasn't recognized either so I had to do a manual

#pacman -S ntfs-3g
#ntfs-3g /dev/sdX /mnt/mountpoint

I've been using this Seagate drive for many monthes. it has worked with many other distros and Win7. Arch is the only one that can't open automatically.

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#5 2009-08-23 23:33:40

vinoman2
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Re: Mounting external drive

OK,

now I get this:

[root@arch64 davek]# nano /etc/autofs/auto.misc
[root@arch64 davek]# nano /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi
[root@arch64 davek]# pacman -S ntfs-3g
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): ntfs-3g-2009.4.4-1 

Total Download Size:    0.35 MB
Total Installed Size:   1.15 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
ntfs-3g-2009.4.4-1-...   356.8K  529.3K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
(1/1) installing ntfs-3g                            [#####################] 100%
[root@arch64 davek]# ntfs-3g /dev/sdX /mnt/mountpoint
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sdX': No such file or directory

ntfs-3g 2009.4.4 integrated FUSE 27 - Third Generation NTFS Driver

Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Yura Pakhuchiy
Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Szabolcs Szakacsits
Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Jean-Pierre Andre
Copyright (C) 2009 Erik Larsson

Usage:    ntfs-3g [-o option[,...]] <device|image_file> <mount_point>

Options:  ro (read-only mount), remove_hiberfile, uid=, gid=,
          umask=, fmask=, dmask=, streams_interface=.
          Please see the details in the manual (type: man ntfs-3g).

Example: ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

Ntfs-3g news, support and information:  http://ntfs-3g.org
[root@arch64 davek]#


after all this it's now working. Thanks smile
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sdX': No such file or directory
what should the X be?

Last edited by vinoman2 (2009-08-24 01:29:56)

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#6 2009-08-24 01:43:34

neddie_seagoon
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Re: Mounting external drive

Not sure if you are still having this issue but to see what X is you can do dmesg after plugging in the drive and you should see something like:

scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Maxtor   OneTouch         0125 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors: (750 GB/698 GiB)
 sdb: sdb1
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

In this case the X is b1 -- my drive is /dev/sdb1 .

Last edited by neddie_seagoon (2009-08-24 01:44:11)

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#7 2009-08-24 01:53:30

vinoman2
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Re: Mounting external drive

here's the end of mine:

scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Seagate  FreeAgent        102D PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors: (500 GB/465 GiB)
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 5
[davek@arch64 ~]$

so I guess mine is sdb1 also.

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