USB Drive won't mount in KDE 3.5

whitetr6 · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 28

I have a newly installed KDE 3.5 environment. If I insert a USB stick, it auto-mounts and works fine. But if I plug in my USB external hard drive, it does not. There is an unmounted drive object in Storage Media. If I click on that, it gives me the error: mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda3 is already mounted on /. That is true. I'm trying to figure out how to make my system not try to mount this drive using /dev/hda3, since that's what it seems to be doing.

Please let me know what other info I can provide to help figure this out. Thanks!!

Output of mount command:
/dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devmode=0664,devgid=85)

My fstab file:

/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd auto noauto,user 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0

Headrush · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:03 am Post subject:

An external USB HD won't have a device node like /dev/hdX, it should be /dev/sdX or /dev/sgX.

With the drive attached, what is the output of

beatryder · Veteran Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138

Also check in the desktop settings to see which ones are displayed, and see if there is an option in the storage devices control panel
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whitetr6 · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 28

Here's the output

Disk /dev/hda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 263 2008125 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 264 30515 242999190 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 100.2 GB, 100256292864 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12188 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Headrush · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject:

Doesn't look like the drive has any partitions to mount!

whitetr6 · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 28

hehe, yeah that would do it :-)

I just used it last week, so I'm now wondering if this has anything to do with switching it back and forth between my Linux and my Windows machine. It's formatted FAT32. Should that not work? Or do you think I corrupted it by mounting on different OS back and forth?

Last question - is FAT32 my best choice for interoperability between Win and Linux?

Headrush · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:17 pm Post subject:

whitetr6 · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 28

Thanks for all the help.