Hi Esther,
Perhaps try unmounting the drive, then re-mount it using another filesystem
type (with the "-t file_system" option). Do you get any error messages?
Does dmesg tell you anything? Are you listing the directory contents in
/mnt/external as root or your local user? Can you see files on the drive if
you connect it to another OS? Also, it is possible to ruin your formatting
if you unplug the usb drive in linux without unmounting it first. Did you
do that at all? Please give as much detail as possible.
All the best,
David
On 2/16/07, Esther Brugger <esther_brugger.yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks! I have pass the command: mount /dev/sbd1 /mnt/external
> then what I should do now? when I entered the directory /mnt/external, it
> has "lost+found", there is nothing else. Is there something wrong there?
> Thanks again for your help!
>
>
> *David LeBard <david.lebard.asu.edu>* wrote:
>
> Hi Esther,
>
> You probably need to pass it the filesystem type, as the error suggests.
> The option will depend on how the usb drive was formatted, but I suspect it
> was made for Windows. In that case, try:
>
> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/external
>
> If you do a "man mount" you will get all mount options.
>
> Good luck,
> David
>
> On 2/16/07, Esther Brugger < esther_brugger.yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> > When I type: mount /dev/sda /mnt/external
> > it says: mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> >
> > What's the problem? Thanks!
> >
> > *Florian Haberl < Florian.Haberl.chemie.uni-erlangen.de>* wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > On Thursday, 15. February 2007 20:53, Esther Brugger wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I met a problem about the computer. I saved my previous AMBER results
> > in
> > > an external hard drive. Now I am using another PC to deal with the
> > data in
> > > the Fedora Core4 Linux system. But I found I couldn't mount this
> > external
> > > drive under this system. Is there somebody know how I can read these
> > > files?? Thanks a lot for your any help!
> >
> > this is more a linux related question.
> >
> > Normally fedora or suse should automount external (usb or firewire
> > devices).
> >
> > If it dont work try following:
> >
> > - Plug in and switch the harddisk on
> > - Take a look at dmesg (su and then dmesg) to see if your pc knows the
> > hardware
> > - Manual mount your harddisk (something like mkdir /mnt/usbhd
> > mount /dev/sdx1 /mnt/usbhd)
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Esther B.
> > >
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> > Greetings,
> >
> > Florian
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