[Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD

[Protech Caribsurf]

Hi Punky - cat /proc/partitions:

root at voyage:~# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   3        0   29302560 hda
   3        1   29302528 hda1
   8        0  488386584 sda
   8        1  488384001 sda1
root at voyage:~#

Derek


-----Original Message-----
From: Kim-man 'Punky' TSE [mailto:punkytse at punknix.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:05 AM
To: Protech Caribsurf
Cc: 'Kevin Wang'; voyage-linux at voyage.hk
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD

Hi Derek,

Show me the output of "cat /proc/partitions"


On 4/11/2012 9:06 PM, Protech Caribsurf wrote:
> Chance - tried the powered hub and no difference.
>
> Kevin - dmesg reports the USB drive as attached (sda1) but it does not 
> show up when I try fdisk -l
>
> Guess I need to mount it manually or add a line to /etc/fstab? If 
> that's the correct approach - I'm new to Linux, so bear with me - what 
> is the content of the line to add?
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Derek
>
>


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Regards,
Kim-man "Punky" Tse

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