[SOLVED] Hard Drive Won't Mount

[jmncee]

I am trying to mount a hard drive it shows up as /dev/sda1

I can click it and mount it via the GUI but I need it mounted for this script and do not want to have an extra step of doing it manually

I have tried (also tried sda vs sda1, no differance)
sudo mount /dev/sda1
sudo mount -t ntfs/dev/sda1
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g/dev/sda1

I know the drive is sda the only partition on it being sda1, but either I get an error saying it couldn't be found or I simply get no response depending on how I alter the code

Thanks for you help and suggestions

Oh also the drive shows hpfs/ntfs 0x07 in the disk utility

[JohnGraham]

Try this command:

man man

Then this:

man mount

P.S. This may come off as sarcastic to some - it's merely intended to be succinct.

[jmncee]

Try this command:

man man

Then this:

man mount

P.S. This may come off as sarcastic to some - it's merely intended to be succinct.

read the information on mount in there
tried -U and the uuid for the drive which I have being saved as a variable
tried -a from what I understand is supposed to mount all partitions available

the main problem is that I do not know all of the syntax for bash yet as this is my first bash script

I do not mean to sound like one of the people who expect to post a question and have other people write the code fro them piece by piece, I am just new to this and I got stuck here at the end on the UUID (other post) and this mounting problem. I never expected mount to become and issue as it seems pretty straight forward, but as I keep getting errors something has to be wrong

[JohnGraham]

Sorry, I thought it'd be clearer on the man page - looking at it, the one for mount is quite complicated, they're usually more straightforward!

Anyway, the major thing you seem to be missing is that you need somewhere to mount a file system - you're specifying what you want to mount, but not where to mount it. For example, if you have a directory (an empty directory) at /mnt/sda1-mount/, you can mount /dev/sda1 there with the following command:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1-mount/

You'd only omit the directory if /dev/sda1 is in your fstab (see "man fstab").

If it gives you an error about "unknown filesystem type" or something like that, that's when you want to start giving it "-t ntfs" and such.

[jmncee]

Sorry, I thought it'd be clearer on the man page - looking at it, the one for mount is quite complicated, they're usually more straightforward!

Anyway, the major thing you seem to be missing is that you need somewhere to mount a file system - you're specifying what you want to mount, but not where to mount it. For example, if you have a directory (an empty directory) at /mnt/sda1-mount/, you can mount /dev/sda1 there with the following command:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1-mount/

You'd only omit the directory if /dev/sda1 is in your fstab (see "man fstab").

If it gives you an error about "unknown filesystem type" or something like that, that's when you want to start giving it "-t ntfs" and such.

I tried this and a couple of variations on the idea, I always gt this error
fuse: failed to access mountpoint because /mnt/sda1-mount: No suce file or directory

I have tried to mount to /media/... as well

[theNbomr]

You must first create the mountpoint directory. In your case, you tried to use '/mnt/sda1-mount', and that directory does not exist. Choose a mountpoint that suits your requirements, create that mountpoint directory (a one-time-only command), and then mount the drive on that directory. Thereafter, you can access the filesystem of the mounted drive with the root of the partition at the mountpoint.

#
#  Make a mountpoint
mkdir -p /some/directory/of/your/choice
#
# Mount the NTFS partition at the created mountpoint
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /some/directory/of/your/choice
#
# See what is in the NTFS partition root
ls -las /some/directory/of/your/choice

Read the ntfs section of the mount manpage for more details. Your distribution may use the ntfs-3g filesystem type. If so, use that instead of ntfs.

--- rod.

[jmncee]

Problem Solved, Thank You