Re: USB external drive question

Rob Kemp wrote:
David Haggett wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:15:54 +0000, Phil Latio wrote:


I typed in:
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2

But got the below:
Mount: you must specify the file system

So I tried
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
Have you tried to access the
external drive with parted to see what the partitions are called?


Or alternatively, what is the output of fdisk -l /dev/sda?

You shouldn't need to specify the filesystem type if the partitions are
formatted in a standard way. Most likely the partitions are empty, or
corrupted.

I've always had to specify the fs type for USB disks. Fedora Core 6. This was the case with an out-of-the-box USB drive, which are usually preformatted as FAT 32, and was still the case after I reformatted it as ext3. I didn't try using "-t auto".

Be aware that if you have more than one USB storage device attached, then at boot the assigned drive name can change: its related to the order in which storage devices go ready or are plugged in, not to the USB socket its connected to.

Maybe labelling the partition and using the label rather than the device name in /etc/fstab would fix the problem with auto-mounting and device name assignment. The Windows disk name is equivalent to the ext2/3 label and is accessible to Linux.


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