how to mount fat32 ext usb hard drive (Solved)

[jaggededge]

I am a newbie. I followed what I read on the forums but I am stuck trying to mount a Seagate 100GB ext hardrive over usb. I am giving the info here: (ubuntu 9.04)
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# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x33957100

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 37488 301115392 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 37488 38913 11451392 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa60b9538

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 12161 97683201 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
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I suppose I have to mount /dev/sdc1 . So I tried:
root-ubuntu# mkdir seagate
root-ubuntu# mount /dev/sdc1 seagate
error==>mount: you must specify the filesystem type

At this point I did "man mount" and realized I had reached the limit of my expertise!.
Could someone please kindly help me here.
Thanks in advance.

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome.
Try this one.

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /seagate

[jaggededge]

Thank you very much. It worked !
couple of follow-up qns:
a) I suppose I should do the mount each time I want to connect the drive (it will not be connected all the time. So I guess I should not do an auto anything for this)
b) what's the unmount command going to look like ? (also if I fail to remember to unmount will it be a major disaster ?)
thanks and appreciate your response,

[MikeTbob]

You can add the drive to fstab so that you only need to issue

mount /dev/sdc1 /seagate

To unmount it

umount /seagate

[D3stroy3r]

i've also tried this and it worked but all files on that hard drive are "locked", how do you mount with read write access?

[devils casper]

Use default and umask options in mount command.
Execute this

mount -t vfat /dev/<partition>  /mount_point  -o defaults,umask=0

vfat is for FAT32. Replace it with ntfs-3g for NTFS.

[D3stroy3r]

thanks works fine now =)

[MikeTbob]

Glad you got it working to your satisfaction. Don't hesitate to start a new thread should you find the need to.