----- Original Message ----- From: "Micheal" <sundance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 1:01 AM Subject: Re: Drive not showing up in "Computer" - Beginner > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:49, Bradley (FC2 List) wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:34, Bradley (FC2 List) wrote: > > > > I have a 6 gig IDE drive, secondary master that I would like to use to > > share > > > > files across OSs. It does not show up in the "Computer" group with > > > > filesystem and CD drives. Do I need to edit something to make this show > > up? > > > > The file system is fat32. I am using FC2 and Gnome. > > > > > > Could you post your /etc/fstab file? This is what controls what drives > > > get "mounted" to what file system > > > > > > Thanks > > > MC > > > > Thanks for the reply: > > > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults > > 1 1 > > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults > > 1 2 > > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 > > 0 0 > > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > > 0 0 > > none /proc proc defaults > > 0 0 > > none /sys sysfs defaults > > 0 0 > > /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults > > 0 0 > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 > > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > > /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 > > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > > noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > > > > > > > > Thanks Bradley > > Well the drive is not showing up in fstab, so it is not getting mounted, > hence it showing up in Computer. > > First click on the "Red Hat" then system tools then hardware browser. > Type in your root password. Let it find your hardware, and then click on > hard drives. Make sure the 6 GB drive is showing up there. If it is > great move on. If not, then it is not being detected, boot into the > bios and make sure it is detected there. If not check the jumper > settings on the drive. If it is then check /var/log/messages for any > errors > > If the drive shows up in the Hardware Browser, which I think it will, > then you just have to edit /etc/fstab to have it mounted on boot. Note > the name of the drive that is 6GB it should be /dev/hdb or something > similar. > > Add this line to the bottom of the file. > /dev/mydrive(hdb1 or 2 or whatever) /mnt/share > vfat user,showexec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > > Make sure that you have a /mnt/share directory. It does not have to be > expicitly named share, anything will work so long as the file matches > the directory. > > to mount the drive as root type mount --all > > Let me know if this helps > > > MC > Michael, I think I was able to do all you suggested. When I enter the mount --all command, I get this error: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems. The drive shows up in "computer" as "share" and gives me the same error when I try to open. Thanks b
