How to Mount External Hard Drive

petertosh · 2011-04-10 02:58:55

Hey guys, i have a drive that i need to get some files from, but its not mounting. i think i remember reading something about a module or daemon that i might need (maybe?). i have the usbutils and such installed and still cant seem to get it to mount. greatly appreciate some assistance.

cheers

Inxsible · 2011-04-10 03:38:44

what filesystem is the drive?

petertosh · 2011-04-10 03:51:35

fat32 i think

Inxsible · 2011-04-10 03:53:10

What command are you using to mount it? Is this an external drive or internal?

If internal, is it listed in fstab? if external, have you looked into udev rules or udisks, including scripts like udiskie, devmon ?

If somebody is to help you, you need to provide more information than what you have. please be sure about things like what filesystem you have on the drive and things of those nature. Those things are important for people to help you.

broken pipe · 2011-04-10 08:20:25

are u using any desktop enviroment like gnome or kde? automounting should work there otherwise there are many other ways to mount it automatically and manual:

i assume /dev/sdb1 is the drive/partition you want to mount; /mnt/point can be elsewhere but it has to be created before you mount the device

exec as root: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/point

if you want to mount it as user, the most clean way is imo using pmount (pacman -S pmount):
pmount /dev/sdb1 (you can access the drive now under /media/sdb1; umount it with pumount /media/sdb1)

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How to Mount External Hard Drive

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