How to mount Seagate External Portable on fc6

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Xiyan Lon wrote:
> On fc5 (with the last kernel), I can see the icon external harddisk on
> my desktop (automatically detect on fc5).
> But after I (clean) install fc6 (with the last kernel), I can not mount
> my external hardisk  (Seagate USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive).
> Could someone help me. I am using motherboard MSI K9N Platinum.
> 
> XL
> 
You may need to give the partitions labels. FC6 didn't do so well on
drives with out partition labels. I thought that was fixed in the
updates, but I could be wrong. You can also mount it as root - look
in /var/log/messages after you plug it in - it should tell you what
drive designation, (/dev/sda or /dev/sdb probably.) and what
partitions it finds. You can then create mount points for it, and
mount it as root. Something like:

mkdir /mnt/tmp
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp

Mikkel
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