Can't see harddrive...

**micro2** · 08-02-2008

I've got SUSE11 running great all drivers and software is running fine. I can see both of my hard drives in the hardware manager and partitioning sections of yast. But I can see it if I go into the file manager to pull files from it. It's FAT32 cause it has files from and old windows system on it. I wish to move them over onto bigger hard drive and then make it part of this system.........

**micro2** · 08-02-2008

Can anyone tell me how to see this drive.... ???

**gogalthorp** · 08-02-2008

Are the partitions mounted?

**micro2** · 08-03-2008

I tried to do that earlier I think by typing - mount -t /dev/sdb /mnt - and it said it was already mounted. In the file browser it showed up as a usb drive that I can't do anything with so I think my command was wrong or something but I can't even get ride of it now...

the hard drive show up in the partition software as that - sdb and sdb1 not sure which one to mount I tried both.

**scrarfussi** · 08-03-2008

post contents of fdisk-l here

my opensuse way of mounting is go to yast -> system -> partioner choose the drive labeled fat32 a window pops up here you can set up the mount point eg /Shared /windows what ever you decide under fstab options you can set permissions etc close save save your hard drive will now show under /shared an alternative method simpler of course
mkdir /media/sdx
mount -t fat32 /dev/sdx/ /media/sdx

think thats correct replace x with your drive letter

**micro2** · 08-03-2008

here is what it shows in the partitioning program -

/dev/sdb1 74.5 GB Win95 Fat32 /mnt

start and the end and the device infoormation...

I tried to type in fdisk-l but nothing came up

**devils casper** · 08-03-2008

There is a space between fdisk and -l. You must have root privileges to execute fdisk command.

Code:

su -
fdisk -l

Execute this

Code:

umount /dev/sdb1
mkdir  /media/sdb1
mount  -t  vfat  /dev/sdb1  /media/sdb1  -o defaults,umask=0
ls /media/sdb1

**micro2** · 08-03-2008

you the man that worked perfect! I just didn't quiet understand how to enter it in the terminal window, Thanks to all...

**micro2** · 08-03-2008

ooops, I logged into my machine this morning with a warm fuzzy knowing everything was ready for me to go and noticed that my drive was unmounted. I am however happy to say I got all the data I needed off of it. I went into the partitioner to make a regular partition for linux so I'm totally done with windows and it said I should unmount it. Could someone help me with that? I think I can get it partitioned from following the partitioning software in yast...

...........sorry I noticed at the top umount /dev/sdb1/ my bag !!!!!!!!!

**devils casper** · 08-03-2008

ooops, I logged into my machine this morning with a warm fuzzy knowing everything was ready for me to go and noticed that my drive was unmounted.

You have to edit /etc/fstab file to automount partition(s). Otherwise execute mount command on every boot up.

Execute umount command to unmount partition.

Code:

umount /dev/<device_name>

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