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kraydl
11-07-2005, 03:53 AM
I'm unable to mount my external hdd (/dev/sdb vfat).

Ideally, I'd like to have the drive (/sdb) automatically appear on my normal user desktop allowing that user to read and write to it.

Here is my info:

unplugged

dmesg -c >& /dev/null

plugged in

(set -x
dmesg
cat /proc/partitions
cat /etc/fstab
ls -la /mnt/
) >& post.txt


+ cat /etc/knoppix-version
4.0.2 2005-09-23
+ dmesg
usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
scsi10 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 7
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: WDC Model: WD600VE-75HDT0 Rev: 09.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB)
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB)
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi10, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
+ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

8 0 244140625 sda
8 1 1574370 sda1
8 2 127242832 sda2
8 3 1 sda3
8 4 64228 sda4
8 5 115258311 sda5
8 16 58605120 sdb
8 17 58605088 sdb1
+ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda1 none swap defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0


( set -x
sudo rebuildfstab -r
cat /etc/fstab
mount /mnt/sdb1
df -HT /mnt/sdb1
) >& post.txt


+ sudo rebuildfstab -r
+ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 vfat defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda1 none swap defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
+ mount /mnt/sdb1
mount: mount point /mnt/sdb1 does not exist
+ df -HT /mnt/sdb1
df: `/mnt/sdb1': No such file or directory


Thank you.