[Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD

[Protech Caribsurf]

root at voyage:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf6158a29

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       60801   488384001    7  HPFS/NTFS
root at voyage:~# ls -la /media/
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Apr 11 15:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb2
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb3
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb5
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb6
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb7
root at voyage:~#

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim-man 'Punky' TSE [mailto:punkytse at punknix.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:44 AM
To: Protech Caribsurf
Cc: 'Kevin Wang'; voyage-linux at voyage.hk
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD

Hi Derek,

So it is there.  And output of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" and output of "ls -la
/media/"

On 4/11/2012 10:24 PM, Protech Caribsurf wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>
> --
> Regards,
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>
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