Use root privileges for the following commands.

To list your drives, use the following command:

fdisk -l

Create mount point for a drive:

mkdir /media/sdc1

Using the name obtained from the "fdisk -l" command, try mounting the

drive manually like:

mount -t ext4 /media/sdc1 /dev/sdc1

Regards,

LelandJ

On 09/12/2011 04:48 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProLinux) wrote:

> OK, my new linux box is up and running, sort of.

>

> This is the scenario:

>

> * I installed Ubuntu 11.4 on the new 1TB (SATA) disk that came with

> the machine.

>

> * I have a bunch of ATA disks from my now-dead old Ubuntu computer. I

> have installed two of them internally (one of them is still NTFS), and

> the rest externally with some cheap HDD enclosures.

>

> I had made an error when I first installed the two internal ATA drives

> -- I had the jumper settings wrong. I thought that was why I couldn't

> mount one of them. Otherwise, everything seemed OK. Well, except for

> Samba -- a couple of samba shares, well, wouldn't.

>

> So, I took it apart and fixed the drives. Now, more of the drives

> won't mount. A drive that (the UI tool) says is at "dev/sda" when I

> try to mount it, it says that there is "already a disk mounted at

> media/sdc". If it is at dev/sda, shouldn't it mount at media/sda?

>

> Any suggestions how I work my way out of this mess?

>

> Ken

>

> Further:

>

> ** this is fstab:

> #<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

> proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

> /dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

> # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation

> UUID=709095b9-9736-42d6-9b7a-9ab9f7b81028 none swap sw

> 0 0

> /dev/sdb1 /media/sda1 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,users,uid=root 0 0

> /dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 ext4 users 0 0

> /dev/sdd1 /media/sdd1 ext4 users 0 0

> /dev/sdj1 /media/sdj1 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,users,uid=root 0 0

> /dev/sdk1 /media/sdk1 ext4 group=root,users 0 0

> /dev/sde1 /media/sde1 ntfs defaults 0 0

> /dev/sdi1 /media/sdi1 ext4 group=root,users 0 0

>

> ** here is: ls -al /media

> total 44

> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2011-09-12 14:35 .

> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2011-09-06 22:29 ..

> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-09-11 21:10 sda1

> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-09-10 17:07 sdb1

> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2011-09-06 22:29 sdc1

> drwx------ 4 ken ken 4096 2011-09-08 16:56 sdd1

> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 2011-09-09 14:52 sde1

> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-09-12 11:06 sdi1

> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2011-09-12 14:22 sdj1

> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-09-10 17:08 sdk1

>

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