Hard drive not mounting

[Jack Craig]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 9:03 AM, antonio montagnani <
antonio.montagnani at alice.it> wrote:

> Mikkel L. Ellertson ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on
> 08/07/2012 16:57:
>
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>> On 07/08/2012 01:35 AM, antonio montagnani wrote:
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>>> when I connect an external HD (powered) I get:
>>>
>>>  lsusb
>>>> Bus 001 Device 010: ID 045e:0728 Microsoft Corp.
>>>> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1a40:0101 TERMINUS TECHNOLOGY INC. USB-2.0
>>>>
>>> 4-Port HUB
>>
>>> Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04e8:3268 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
>>>>
>>> ML-1610 Mono Laser Printer
>>
>>> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader
>>>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>>>> Bus 002 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 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>>>> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>>>> Bus 001 Device 000: ID 059f:0651 LaCie, Ltd
>>>>
>>>
>>> Lacie is the hD, but it is not mounted!!!
>>>
>>>  OK - that is not a hub problem. The hub is working. If it wasn't,
>> you would not see the hard drive.
>>
>> Now we need to find out way the drive is not getting mounted. The
>> first thing I would do is run "fdisk -l" and see if the partitions
>> on the drive are detected properly. You can also look in
>> /var/log/messages to see what the system is doing when you plug in
>> the drive.
>>
>> If the drive is detected properly, then we move to why it is not
>> being mounted. For that, the first thing we need to know is the
>> desktop you are running. (Gnome, KDE, Fluxbox, etc.) From there, we
>> can tell you what settings to check. It is possible to turn off
>> auto-mounting.
>>
>> Mikkel
>> - --
>> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and
>> taste good with Ketchup!
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>>  forgot to say that I am running Gnome3


OK, its seen, but not mounted.

I had a problem where a usb device wasnt mounting as it had no label.
i used cli to label the volume and voila.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-partition-howto-set-labels/

maybe?

hth...

if there is data on the drive, label carefull so you dont hammer the FS.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-partition-howto-set-labels/



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