Hard drive not mounting

[antonio montagnani]

Il 08/07/2012 18:20, Jack Craig ha scritto:
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> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 9:03 AM, antonio montagnani
> <antonio.montagnani at alice.it <mailto:antonio.montagnani at alice.it>> wrote:
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>     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:
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>                 lsusb
>                 Bus 001 Device 010: ID 045e:0728 Microsoft Corp.
>                 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1a40:0101 TERMINUS TECHNOLOGY
>                 INC. USB-2.0
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>         4-Port HUB
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>                 Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04e8:3268 Samsung Electronics
>                 Co., Ltd
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>         ML-1610 Mono Laser Printer
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>                 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
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>             Lacie is the hD, but it is not mounted!!!
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>         OK - that is not a hub problem. The hub is working. If it wasn't,
>         you would not see the hard drive.
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>         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.
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>         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.
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>         Mikkel
>         - --
>         Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and
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>     forgot to say that I am running Gnome3
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> OK, its seen, but not mounted.
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> I had a problem where a usb device wasnt mounting as it had no label.
> i used cli to label the volume and voila.
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> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-partition-howto-set-labels/
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> maybe?
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> hth...
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> if there is data on the drive, label carefull so you dont hammer the FS.
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> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-partition-howto-set-labels/
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same usb stick is mounted properly if conencted to the other USB ports 
of same computer (but not on the hub)

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