Ubuntu :: External HDD Won't Mount On Boot
Sep 11, 2010
I need a hand with mounting an external hd on boot with ubuntu server. I am aware of modifying the fstab, but that doesn't seem to be working. Here is an output:
Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
[code]....
The problem is with the last line. Once booted into the server, I can mount using the following command:
Code:
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/externalHD
I know I can work around it by running a script with the previous command at startup, however I think I am simply doing something wrong. Is there a better way?
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Jan 4, 2011
I need a hand with mounting an external hd on boot with ubuntu server. I am aware of modifying the fstab, but that doesn't seem to be working. Here is an output:
Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
[code]....
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Dec 3, 2009
A while back when 11.0 was recent i upgraded my computer to an hp pavilion desktop which only had SATA which wasn't compatible with my 500gb IDE hard disk. I then decided to buy a compatible hd (500 gb as well) and use an external hard drive case to put my old one into(which plugs into the USB ports) i currently have the external 500 gb partitioned with a linux native mounted at /home, and my other with NTFS and linux native mounted at /
Prior to updating to 11.2:I could power on my external hd(Thermaltake A2396) after grub and it would boot up no problem. if i turned it on too late or before grub was done it wouldn't load and i would have to log in as root in repair mode, turn the hd off then back on, wait for a couple of lines to pass(I assume the drive being detected) then mount /home, and init 5This didnt really bother me for the previous versions of suse much because i just had to remember to turn on the drive After updating to 11.2:the only way to boot is to wait, do the power on/off, mount /home, and init 5this gets to be quite annoying after a while and i was wondering if anyone knew a way to get it to mount itself while its booting. let me know if you'd like me to post any more info
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May 25, 2010
I have been trying to share folders from my main PC which is running Ubuntu 10.04. I have been able to figure out Samba enough to get my a couple of folders shared, but I have been unable to share any folders which are on my external harddrive. After entering the path in my smb.conf file they appear on the network but I am unable to navigate to them. When trying to navigate to them through the network folder on the pc they are actually connected to I get an "Unable to mount location: Failed to mount windows share" dialog box. On the windows pc I am trying to share with I get, "Windows cannot acces \Josh-Desktop
ame of folder"
My smb.conf file looks like this:
That folders I cannot access are Music and Videos.
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May 5, 2011
How do I configure my Debian installation to mount external USB drives to mount points based on the volume names of the drives? For instance, if I have a thumb drive with the volume name of "SWORDFISH," how do I have Linux mount it at /media/SWORDFISH? I'm aware that this can be setup in FSTAB, but that requires that I know the UUID of the device beforehand and that I take the time to set each external device up in FSTAB first. That does nothing for me when I have a thumb drive that has never been plugged into my computer before.
This seems to be setup by default in Ubuntu/Kubuntu, but is not working for me with a fresh installation of Debian Squeeze and KDE4. I've spent the past 2 hours Googling for a solution and have turned up nothing. UPDATE: My results are inconsistent. Sometimes Debian mounts devices to mount points based on the volume names, and other times it gives them generic mount points (e.g. /media/usb1).
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Jul 11, 2010
I installed Ubuntu on external USB hard drive and while booting I did got option to log into windows XP, Ubuntu. Both operating systems ran fine. i.e. GRUB had overwritten MBR and I was able to dual boot. Main issue: I have installed Ubuntu in external hard-drive so that I can use Linux whenever I want other people who are using same computer can operate on WindowsXP. Sometimes my external hard drive gives problem if there is loose connection and so that oper people using computer do not face any problem I want to disconnect external USB HD whenever I am not using Linux. GRUB menu was pointing to external hardrive so disconnecting it meant my system wont boot!!I rewrote MBR using WindowsXP CD recovery mode. Now I am unable to boot from external USB hard disk( I thought I would be able to if I choose USB hard drive in BIOS option but it did not work it logged into WindowsXP by default).Is there any way I can change WindowsXP boot.ini file so that it also shows Ubuntu in external hard disk? Or is there any way.(I do not want GRUB way as then I would have to keep my external drive connected to log into windows - which I do not want).
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Feb 27, 2011
I've just made the switch from Ubuntu to Debian Squeeze and am having trouble connecting external media (be it a USB stick or an ext HD). The error I am getting when I connect anything via usb is the following:
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
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Feb 6, 2010
Just bought a new external and usually i would be able to mount things but i cannot log into GDM so im suck doing it in the terminal like thing. so far i have tried:
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sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
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sudo mkdir /media/usbdrive
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdrive
but when i do that is says
Code:
FAT: bogus num of reserved sectors
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1
comp: Dell Inspiron E1505
OS: 9.10
HD: Segate Free Agent Go 320GB
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Sep 11, 2009
I'm new to Linux. Currently installed Ubuntu 9.04.
I want to mount a USB HDD to my PC.
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Apr 6, 2010
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
I get this when I try to mount this drive. I was working just fine and then when I tried to mount again to pull some data off It gave me an error. It is an internal hard sata hard drive hook up via usb with a usb to sata converter. Is there some kind of disk check i can do to find errors. There is data on there I would like to keep
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Jun 15, 2010
How to mount external drive in Lubuntu?
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Feb 28, 2011
I am the owner of a netbook (Namely, the Acer Aspire one.) With Ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition. I also own a External Usb CD drive. My question is, how do I mount it? K3B seems to find it. Sound juicer doesn't. Rhythm-Box doesn't.
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Apr 12, 2011
I have recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my machine as dual boot using WUBI but on a seperate partition to Windows. Loving it so far, but i cannot get any external drives to mount - i've tried pen drives, camera memory cards and hard drives but nothing comes up.
I have just tried restarting with a pen drive plugged in, and it finally showed something in the computer folder - "memory stick drive" is shown (and my internal CD drive, which i'm not sure was there before.), but i still can't access it and when I try to unmount it gives me the message
Error detaching: helper exited with exit code 1: Detaching device /dev/sdc
USB device: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1)
SYNCHRONIZE CACHE: FAILED: No such file or directory
(Continuing despite SYNCHRONIZE CACHE failure.)
STOP UNIT: FAILED: No such file or directory
[Code]...
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Feb 3, 2010
Been trying to find out the mount point for an external usb hub. I can find information with lsusb :
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608
and dmesg:
[0.924293] hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
But can't seem to find where the hub is mounted. I've tried / dev and /etc/fstab and mtab and /media. BTW what does [0.924293] signify?
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Mar 2, 2010
After installing ubuntu 9.10 on external HDD I cannot boot vista if external usb is unplugged(where ubuntu is installed). it says grub loading and after that recover grub ( i think that is what is says ... not certain in this moment ) anyway hope you get my dilemma. If you need more information I'll be glad to provide it.
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Jan 18, 2010
I am having problems mounting an iso on my external hard drive. I do not want to move it onto my linux partition because it is 3.6 GB. I have a directory made (/media/iso) that I would like to mount it in, but if that doesn't work then I don't care where it goes. After I mount it I want to be able to run it using Wine, but that will come later. For now I just need to get it mounted. And, of course, I am fairly new to linux/ubuntu.
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Feb 23, 2010
I've been checking the Forums and I can't find anything similar to my problem yet. I have 2 external drives that my UBUNTU 9.10 doesn't recognize, although I can see them perfectly in Win XP.I was using them in Ubuntu until 2 weeks ago, when this problem started and I can't find a way to see/mount them again. GPARTED doesn't find any of them; and when aply fdisk -l, can't see them either (only my internal HD).
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Mar 5, 2010
I'm having a problem with my external drive under Ubuntu 9.04. After a reboot Ubuntu seems no longer to mount the the 3 seperate partitions on my external drive. I've added some screenshots of my fstab file which i tried just to let Ubuntu mount my drives, without any results!Can someone help me? If more info is requered, please let me know.
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Mar 18, 2010
Ubuntu 9.10 on 2.6.31-20 kernel (updated today), using USB 2.5" enclosure w/ 80GB HD...flash drives mount fine. Drive has power to it via USB (confirmed). command sudo fdisk -l does NOT list the drive. I use this drive for backups, so it's quite important to me.
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May 10, 2010
I run 10.04 lucid in a laptop with EXT4 as filesystem, and I tried to mount an external hard drive from a Windows that, obviously, uses FAT32. Its the first time I try to mount a hard drive (external) since the upgrade to 10.04. Do I have to download some packages via synaptic? If not, what do I have to do?
Plus, I have run
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sudo fdisk -l
and this is what I get
[Code]...
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May 18, 2010
Just installed my first ever linux distro in my life and sad that i did not come here before. Anyways i have a WD Green 1TB External HDD. I have Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Installed and i want it to mount my HDD as soon as my PC starts up.Quick Q: How much time does it take for any USB device to get recognized on ubuntu. Takes me more than 2 minutes compared to a few seconds on my windows i had before (same machine)
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Jun 20, 2010
Script doesn't work anymore? I created a script that mounts an external hard drive.
#!/bin/sh
mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.104/MediaShare /mnt/MediaShare
mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.104/Backup /mnt/Backup
It is in my startup and has been working fine. I recently upgraded to 10.04 Ubuntu and I don't know if this has anything to do with it. A while after the upgrade something changed. Normally when booting up a permission screen for the scrip would pop up, I would enter the password, and it worked. But suddenly it started going past the login for the script and the mouse could not click on anything. I discovered that I could press alt-o and the mouse worked again. And I would activate the script in terminal and it would work. Why this would suddenly change and what I can do to get the script working again.
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Oct 27, 2010
I've got an external drive that is formatted using the FAT32 filesystem. My fstab file contains the following line:
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Dec 2, 2010
I have an external eSATA hard drive that has been working fine for months for backing up (I had been rsync'ing to it every night). For my configuration, see [URL]
I can no longer mount the drive with eSATA (doesn't even recognize it). It was mounted on /dev/sdb1. The drive also has a USB ... I tried that and it mounts fine.
So, my data is ok, but I want to resume nightly backups (via eSATA).
Here is some output:
fstab (2 lines below 'cause I swap HDD's between my dock and offsite storage):
Code:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
UUID=228d6ffc-c50e-425d-a768-fcb9c22d8383 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=aa75b03b-5037-4b0b-b73b-0c1f017c89dd none swap sw
[Code].....
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Apr 16, 2011
When I try to mount my 320 Gig HD I get this.
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending
What am I missing?
Im Running Ubuntu 10.10
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Jun 8, 2011
I recently wiped and re-installed Ubuntu on my system Lenovo Thinkpak T510, now running 11.04. Before formatting my hard drive, I backed up all my information to an external USB Seagate FreeAgent Drive, which I reformatted to ext4 before copying my data there using a rsync command. After reinalling the operating system, I'm no longer able to get the drive to mount. I'm not quite sure what's going on. Here are the results of a fdisk command:
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$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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I'm not able to mount the drive from my mac either. Did I do something wrong when backing up my data and loose everything (fortunately, most of it is also backed up elsewhere, just not all in a single place), or is there something else I can try to get it back?
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Jul 29, 2011
Having issues while mounting my 1TB passport USB drive. When running this command....
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sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt/WD/
I got this error: mount: you must specify the filesystem type I even tried adding the filesystem, which was or is ext4
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sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc /mnt/WD/
Getting a different error instead:
Code:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
I should mention that this was working just a few hours ago. There was a power glitch and my Ubuntu headless server lost power. I turned it on and since then, I am getting this error. I would prefer not to format via GUI .... 1st because I have data there , 2nd, because I don't want to rely on a graphical interface but being able to fix this via terminal.
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Jan 11, 2010
I have just updated to karmic, and I found that my external hard disk partitions, previously mounted under /media/disk and /media/fat are now referenced by something looking like a UUID, namely /media/7b096ea4-60ee-46b1-95cd-1851b051c40d and /media/4951-95D9.
Is there a way to revert to the old settings? Any application relying on the files on the external hard disk has now stopped working. While I certainly could just change reference (assuming the UUID does not change every session), I'd rather use the old names if possible.
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Jan 31, 2010
Have a 1TB external USB hard drive I want to use on both Windows and Linux (Mythbuntu 9.10), so I thought the easiest way would be to format it with NTFS. Installed the NTFS-3G package and I'm able to read and write to the drive fine from Linux, however I have a few questions;
1) How do I configure Linux so that when it mounts the NTFS partition it is writeable for user, group and other (bascially I want everyone to have read and write access)? Currently when the NTFS disk is mounted the permissions are restricted to the user only and I suspect I'll need to edit fstab for this, but don't have much experience here so need help with the specifics.
2) If my Linux PC is turned on with the external drive attached, the disk is not mounted until I double click on the icon on the desktop. Is there anyway I can configure Linux so that it will automatically mount the external disk when booting?
Below is what is in my fstab file at present;
Quote:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
[Code]....
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Mar 17, 2010
I've recently started using a 500gb external hard drive for music and backups. It is always plugged into the computer but doesn't always mount at boot-up and I have to dis-connect and re-connect the USB cable. The desktop icon then appears.The fact that it's mount point changes also means I can't share the Music folder on the external hard drive via Samba (WinXP machines say they can't access the folder) and also Songbird 'loses' the tracks.
How do I permanently mount the external hard drive? I assume it will mean some editing of the fstab file? Unfortunately, I've got no idea of what I should enter on there.The external hard drive volume is called 'Music and BackUps' - Gparted screengrab attached.
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