From: Guy Fraser <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: USB hard drive
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:11:43 -0600
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.)
> >
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>
> 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.
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I have tried unplugging and plugging back in, then I check /etc/fstab
Nothing there for the USB external HD, works fine with a flash drive.
Jim
