On Thu, 2006-30-03 at 19:39 +0000, Jim Douglas wrote: > > > >From: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >Subject: Re: USB hard drive > >Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:30:52 +1030 > > > >On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 03:13 +0000, Jim Douglas wrote: > > > I look in /dev and see sda, sdb, sdc, sdd > > > > > > I did, > > > > > > mkdir usbhd in /media > > > > > > then, > > > > > > mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /media/usbhd > > > > > > is says, > > > mount:No medium found > > > >The "disk" is /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. It's most likely that you're > >going to mount a partition on the disk. Try something like: > > > >mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/usbhd > > > >(Notice the number after sda.) > > > >-- > >Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > >I read messages from the public lists. > > > >-- > >fedora-list mailing list > >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > I tried, > mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/usbhd > > And I get, > mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist > > I looks like, > mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/usbhd > > ...is finding the device, but doesn't recognizing the media but I don't know > why and don't know how to get it to. Hmmm, have you been unplugging the drive and trying again? When I started trying to figure out what was wrong when I was having similar problems, I discovered that every time I unplugged the drive and plugged it in again, the device name would increment {Ex: /dev/sdg -> /dev/sdh ...}. I was having the issues mounting my old FC3 drive with a USB2 adaptor. SELinux was causing some kind of problems, where some partitions would be partially mounted, where they would not show up using "mount" to display the mounted devices, but /media/disk-1 was mounted, and I could see the files using ls. Using "sudo umount /media/disk-1" unmounted the device. I disabled SELinux and things started to work, to the point where the partitions were attempting to be mounted by their labels. Unfortunately many of my labels had forward slash "/" characters and that was causing problems, so I relabelled the partitions. Even after relabelling two partitions would not mount until SELinux was disabled again, they contained "/home" and "/var/spool". After that everything worked as expected. For now I am disabling SELinux when hot-plugging USB and Firewire drives, rather than trying to figure out what needs to be adjusted.
