[SOLVED] mount external drive woes

mykey · 2010-07-24 09:45:08

I have an external drive connected via sata to my system. Before I could mount it manually after powering it on.

Lately this does not work any longer and I have to restart the system with the drive connected and powered on.

fstab for this drive looks like this:

/dev/sdc1       /mnt/sdc1       vfat            noauto,user,rw            0     0
/dev/sdc2       /mnt/sdc2       ext3            noauto,user,suid,dev,exec 0     0

Does anyone know what happened or how I can achieve the state from before?

Last edited by mykey (2010-07-28 12:30:10)

karol · 2010-07-24 09:59:04

I think you can mount anything you damn please, just use 'mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/foo' - have you tried it?

madeye · 2010-07-24 10:20:30

Are you sure it's recognized as sdc* every time? I would use the UUIDs instead.

mykey · 2010-07-24 12:40:44

@ karol - course I tried ...

@ madeye - that does not matter - I can change the name of the the dev in fstab before mounting

point is - a while ago I could just power on the drive and then manually mount it, while the machine was running, which was fine - now I have to have the drive powered on when starting the machine in order to be able to mount it.

karol · 2010-07-24 12:42:40

Does it show in dmesg if you plug it in while the machine was running?

fsckd · 2010-07-24 12:44:37

That's very strange. What is the exact command you are entering? Are there any error message which come up? Have you looked in the logs and dmesg stuff for info?

mykey · 2010-07-24 14:40:10

@ karol - actually no - it does not seem to

@ fsckd - the command is as usual: mount /dev/sdc2 /mnt/sdc2 - no error messages and such - fdisk just does not show the device any more

mykey · 2010-07-28 12:29:41

The problem is kind of solved - I figured that the external drive is recognized correctly as long as there is no cd in the cd drive - once a cd is present it is not recognized any more - strange - but that's how it is right now.

Thanks all for the help.

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[SOLVED] mount external drive woes

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