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impossible to mount external HDD, can you help me please ?
Hello everybody,
i'm a newbie and i've got some problems because i can't mount an external HDD (NTFS) witn knoppix 5.1
i put this :
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda1
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
so i did this : knoppix@Knoppix:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .
do you have any solution please ?
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Senior Member
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With a bit of luck, a new icon should popup on your desktop when connecting the drive, and you can then mount by right-clicking. If this doesn't work, try booting with the drive already active, knoppix should then notice it and create an entry for it in /etc/fstab (and a corresponding desktop icon). If you insist on using "mount", see "man mount" (or "#mount" in the konqueror address bar). Hint: you need to provide the device entry and mount point; the filesystem type is usually guessed correctly. Something like
$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1
The mount point (/mnt/sda1 in older releases) should have been created for you but there's a slight chance you'd need to md it yourself.
Note that only with the most recent KNOPPIX releases has it become safe to write to ntfs; you'd then use
$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1
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Junior Member
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From my experience with v5.1.1
The mount point is defined once the drive is detected. So, you can just simply:
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ sudo mount /media/sda1
(Not sure what is the naming convention. When I use USB flash drive, it was named /media/sda. When I use external hard disk, it was named /media/sda1).
In addition, if the desktop icon is not automatically created and you need it, you can create it manually, like what we do on Windows.
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