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I'm a newbie having big problems mounting a primary slave hard drive. The slave shows up as "New Volume", but is not accessable because it's not mounted. However, I have ...
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Mounting Primary Slave
I'm a newbie having big problems mounting a primary slave hard drive. The slave shows up as "New Volume", but is not accessable because it's not mounted. However, I have no idea how to mount. I've searched the net for info off of various forums, but none of the stuff really worked. Maybe I'm just not understanding something very basic. The slave runs the NTSF filesystem, is running via IDE, and has documents that I need to access. How can I do this? I appreciate your help!
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I just read this post:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...ave-drive.html
and figured out how to mount the drive. Thanks!
However, I'm still having trouble seeing the contents of the drive. The drive seems to be accessable, but everything which was stored inside doesn't show up. Anybody know how to fix this?
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post the output of 'fdisk -l' command and contents of /etc/fstab file.
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Here's what I got after command fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 9541 76638051 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9542 9729 1510110 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 9542 9729 1510078+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/hdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS
And here's the fstab file:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb1/ /media/seagate ntfs defaults,unmask=0 0 0
I'm trying to mount the hdb1 drive I labeled "Seagate".
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Debian doesn't support NTFS write access out of box. install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access.
execute this
replace ntfs with ntfs-3g in /etc/fstab file.Code:su apt-get install ntfs-3g
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It says:
E: Couldn't find package ntfs-3g.
Could this be a problem with my mirror?
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yes. download and install ntfs-3g package manually. check this Tutorial. its easy process and Instructions are clear.It says:
E: Couldn't find package ntfs-3g.
Could this be a problem with my mirror?It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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Wow, that's great. The downloads all worked. One last thing. I tried to access my fstab file and make the small change from NTFS to NTFS-3g, however, the file is read-only. Just a few days ago, I added an entry to this file by openning it through the terminal. But I forgot what I did. Is there a code that I should use for this?
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Code:su nano -w /etc/fstab
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Ok. I did all of that. But it still doesn't work for some reason.
When I boot the system, there's a line that says: can't find /dev/hdb1 in /etc/fstab. When I go into "Computer", there's a New Volume drive which I cannot open because it can't find /dev/hdb1. When I go into /media/seagate, it lets me in, shows the correct "free space" left on the drive, but I don't see any files. Here's an updated copy of my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb1/ /media/seagate ntfs-3g defaults,unmask=0 0 0
and my fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 9541 76638051 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9542 9729 1510110 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 9542 9729 1510078+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/hdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS
Any advice would be appreciated.
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