Mounting a usb HDD

[aelmas]

We use PBXware for our telephony and the Call recording is filling up the disk. The user's guide indicated that I can mount a usb hdd and store call recording on it using: mount -o gid=555,uid=555 /dev/sdb /home/servers/pbxware/pw/var/spool/ asterisk/monitor/
I did that but I can still see that the usage on disk is rising.

How can I verify that I did?

[arespi]

Type rf -H to see the disk usage, there it should show /dev/sdb mounted, if not something failed at the mount command.
(edited: I meant df ,not rf. Tank you Mike Tbob for the correction)

[aelmas]

rf -H "command not found" when I do df -h I see the disk usage, but could not verify the Mounting

[MikeTbob]

Mount command will tell you what is currently mounted and where it's mounted at.

mount

df -h will tell you disk usage of mounted partitions only.
Did you get any errors or such when you issued the command?

mount -o gid=555,uid=555 /dev/sdb /home/servers/pbxware/pw/var/spool/ asterisk/monitor/

Does gid 555 and uid 555 actually exist? What about /dev/sdb/home/servers/pbxware/pw/var/spool/ asterisk/monitor/? These directories, groups and users must exist before you issue that command or it'll fail.
Also, there probably should not be a space between /dev/sdb and /home/servers/pbxware/pw/var/spool/ asterisk/monitor/
as you have above.

[aelmas]

The mount command helped. thax. I can see the mounted usb as in this
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85)

Now I need to find a way to move the recording to it, when I use df -h I see my home directory is rising to 72% (PBXware recommend to keep it under 70%)

[MikeTbob]

That is not your device. I have the same device list under my mount command. Right off the top of my head, without using Google, I think this is some kind of virtual filesystem for USB but it's not an actual device.

[MikeTbob]

Plug in the drive and post the output of

lsusb

mount

fdisk -l

Use sudo or root as needed.

[aelmas]

the lssub produced
Here is what I have when I do lsusb

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13fd:1840 Initio Corporation 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 USB-2.0 "TetraHub"
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

the mount produced

/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=10240k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/mapper/lvmg-usr on /usr type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/mapper/lvmg-home on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/mapper/lvmg-portage on /usr/portage type ext2 (rw,noatime)
/dev/mapper/lvmg-var on /var type ext3 (rw,noatime)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/tmp type tmpfs (rw,size=512m)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,size=128m)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85)
none on /home/servers/pbxware/pw/proc type proc (rw)
/etc/wanpipe on /home/servers/pbxware/pw/etc/wanpipe type none (rw,bind)
tmpfs on /home/servers/pbxware/pw/recordings type tmpfs (rw,size=128M,mode=0777)

and fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 218.2 GB, 218238025728 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26532 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1           8       64259+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2               9         136     1028160   83  Linux
/dev/sda3             137       26532   212025870   83  Linux

Disk /dev/dm-0: 8510 MB, 8510242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1034 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 180.3 GB, 180359266304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 21927 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-2: 5242 MB, 5242880000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 637 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-3: 2097 MB, 2097152000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 254 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-4: 20.8 GB, 20858273792 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2535 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-4 doesn't contain a valid partition table

And I could not get the cursor back

[MikeTbob]

Interesting, can you tell us a little bit about the machine, did you only have one hard drive? I'm not seeing the USB drive in the output of fdisk, was it attached at the time you issued those commands? Sometimes when you can't get the cursor back from "fdisk -l" it might mean problems with the drive or partitions. Have you checked the USB disk recently? Is it formatted?

[aelmas]

Yes, it was attached when I issued those commands, but I don't think it is formatted under Linux, it was attached to Windows.