USB hard drive

[Jim Douglas]

>From: Guy Fraser <guy at incentre.net>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: USB hard drive
>Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:11:43 -0600
>
>On Thu, 2006-30-03 at 19:39 +0000, Jim Douglas wrote:
> >
> >
> > >From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> > >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > >Subject: Re: USB hard drive
> > >Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:30:52 +1030
> > >
> > >On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 03:13 +0000, Jim Douglas wrote:
> > > > I look in /dev and see sda, sdb, sdc, sdd
> > > >
> > > > I did,
> > > >
> > > > mkdir usbhd in /media
> > > >
> > > > then,
> > > >
> > > > mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /media/usbhd
> > > >
> > > > is says,
> > > > mount:No medium found
> > >
> > >The "disk" is /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.  It's most likely that you're
> > >going to mount a partition on the disk.  Try something like:
> > >
> > >mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/usbhd
> > >
> > >(Notice the number after sda.)
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> > I tried,
> > mount  -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/usbhd
> >
> > And I get,
> > mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
> >
> > I  looks like,
> > mount  -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/usbhd
> >
> > ...is finding the device, but doesn't recognizing the media but I don't 
>know
> > why and don't know how to get it to.
>
>Hmmm, have you been unplugging the drive and trying again?
>
>When I started trying to figure out what was wrong when
>I was having similar problems, I discovered that every
>time I unplugged the drive and plugged it in again, the
>device name would increment {Ex: /dev/sdg -> /dev/sdh ...}.
>
>I was having the issues mounting my old FC3 drive with a USB2
>adaptor. SELinux was causing some kind of problems, where
>some partitions would be partially mounted, where they would
>not show up using "mount" to display the mounted devices, but
>/media/disk-1 was mounted, and I could see the files using ls.
>Using "sudo umount /media/disk-1" unmounted the device. I
>disabled SELinux and things started to work, to the point
>where the partitions were attempting to be mounted by their
>labels. Unfortunately many of my labels had forward slash "/"
>characters and that was causing problems, so I relabelled
>the partitions. Even after relabelling two partitions would
>not mount until SELinux was disabled again, they contained
>"/home" and "/var/spool". After that everything worked as
>expected. For now I am disabling SELinux when hot-plugging USB
>and Firewire drives, rather than trying to figure out what needs
>to be adjusted.
>
>
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I have tried unplugging and plugging back in, then I check /etc/fstab
Nothing there for the USB external HD, works fine with a flash drive.

Jim