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Cant mount any HDs
SixT7:
Hi,
its already my second problem with tc on which i spent a little too much (or still not enough?) time googleing for a solution.
I want to create a backup. I have already read the stuff on the tc concepts site. My problem is, that I cant mount any HDs (neither internal nor external HDs).
I tried it with the mount tool, but when i click on the red 'unmounted' button, it stays unmounted and red. When i tried to use the console, it just said 'no such device'.
What do I do wrong?
thx, SixT7
bmarkus:
What is the file system on partition you are mounting? Output 'fdisk /dev/xxx' and 'p' command may help to understand partioning on the specific device.
SixT7:
I dont really know more than before.. And I'd just paste it but i dont know how to copy and paste in the console. Is that possible?
Jason W:
The command "fdisk -l" will also list partitions and what kind of filesystem they have. I normally don't copy and paste from the console myself as I have mostly 2 button mice, I prefer to output to file instead. In this case, use this command to create a file called file that contains the output of the command:
fdisk -l > file
Then open the file file with leafpad or another graphical editor and you can copy and paste the results from it. To use bmarkus's command, do this:
fdisk /dev/xxx > file
then press the 'p' button, and then press the q button to exit the program. The prompts are hidden as they are output to the file file, but pressing those buttons will give the output of the 'p' option to the file named file which you can copy from there.
SixT7:
Okay, i should have known that, but i was just to focused on copy and paste that i didnt even think about that x)
okay, here is my output:
fdsik -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9729 78148161 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS
fdisk /dev/sdb1:
'/dev/sdb1' is opened for read only
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 60800.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): pq
'/dev/sdb1' is opened for read only
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 60800.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb1: 500.1 GB, 500105217024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60800 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1p1 ? 121585 239029 943368597+ 43 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdb1p2 ? 110106 229557 959493297+ 72 Unknown
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdb1p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Unknown
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdb1p4 166584 166587 24662+ 0 Empty
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Command (m for help): q
I dont really know what to do with that information. Can you see what the problem is?
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