Author: lelandj
Posted: 2011-09-12 at 22:06:06
Also, make sure you have samba client, server and common files installed
and running in your new Linux OS.
Regards,
LelandJ
On 09/12/2011 08:42 PM, lelandj wrote:
> 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
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> 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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