On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:20 AM, J W <j_w_660@hotmail.com> wrote:

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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:40:36 -0400 From: greg.freemyer@gmail.com Subject: Re: [opensuse] Linux can't read files on my USB external 500GB FAT32 HD CC: opensuse@opensuse.org

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@gmail.com> wrote:

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2008/4/27 J W <j_w_660@hotmail.com>:

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I am brand new to Linux. I just installed it as dual boot with Windows

XP. I have two internal hard drives - one for Linux and one for Windows. I also have a USB external hard drive that is 500GB with FAT32. It doesn't seem to have mounted properly. It doesn't show up as a drive. However, after browsing around I found that there is a /Windows/C and a /Windows/D. The C is my Windows drive (NTFS) and I can see the files there just fine. I think the D is my external HD. However, it doesn't show any of the files or directories that I have there.

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I did poke around a little on the internet trying to find help. I

learned about fstab. Here is what it says about it:

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/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_5000AAKS_Externa_57442D574D41505731333632343634-0:0-part1 /windows/D vfat users,gid=3Dusers,umask=3D0002,utf8=3Dtrue 0 0

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How do I get Linux to read/write to my external HD?

Thanks for your help.

-Jeff.

Remove it from fstab, with a KDE desktop it should be mounted in /media/[VOLNAME] each time you plug it, where [VOLNAME] is the Fat32 label... (I assume you're using KDE or Gnome).

Ciro

I agree with Ciro. Likely what happened is the USB drive was connected during install, so the opensuse installer assumed it was a permanent drive and therefore added a mount on boot (ie. non-automount) fstab entry for it. Simply deleting that should allow the standard automount logic to kick in and mount the drive under /media.

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Simply deleting that should allow the standard automount logic to kick in and mount the drive under /media.

I deleted the line for the USB hard drive (as root) from fstab and rebooted. However, I still can't access it. There is still the /Windows/D directory with nothing in it and nothing in /media. I tried deleting /Windows/D, but it came right back the next time I rebooted. fstab still doesn't have the entry in it, though.

Is there anything else I can try?

I don't know why the automount logic is not working. As a work around this should work: ====== Boot without the drive connected. Then once you are fully booted, plug-in the usb drive. Then from a command line type "dmesg | tail -20". You should see a reference to /dev/sdx (where x is a,b,c,d,...) Assuming you only have one partition on the external drive, you can mount it from the command line via "mount /dev/sdx1 /mnt". Then all the data should be available under /mnt. ===== Good Luck Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org