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rogerdv
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 Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: mount external ntfs drives |
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Today I found a problem I had forgotten: I tried to plug an ntfs external hard drive to my PC via USB. I have ntfs-3g and I can properly mount local ntfs drives (configured in fstab), also I can mount flash with a click in thunar, but I have no idea about how to define an external usb hard drive withouth conflicting with normal flash drives that also use /dev/sdb1. How can I solve this?
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kirillrdy
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well, i think udev would create /dev/sd{a,b,c...}{1,2,3,4....}
so there shouldnt be any conflict,
just got to know which one is which
try plugging the usb harddrive and run fdisk -l
it should list all found drives
enjoy
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snkmoorthy
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| emerging hal, would probably solve this for you. |
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rogerdv
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dmpogo
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:52 am Post subject: Re: mount external ntfs drives |
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| rogerdv wrote: | | Today I found a problem I had forgotten: I tried to plug an ntfs external hard drive to my PC via USB. I have ntfs-3g and I can properly mount local ntfs drives (configured in fstab), also I can mount flash with a click in thunar, but I have no idea about how to define an external usb hard drive withouth conflicting with normal flash drives that also use /dev/sdb1. How can I solve this? |
What are you asking, how to mount the drive manually when there is no fstab record
(it will be
mount -t ntfs3g /dev/sdwhatever /mnt/whatever *)
you need to specify filesystem explicitly)
or how to make tunar mount it ?
*) I don;t remember exactly if it is ntfs3g or ntfs-3g with a dash |
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JohnBlbec
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| rogerdv wrote: | | snkmoorthy wrote: | | emerging hal, would probably solve this for you. |
I already have hal. But mounting a flash, which uses fat, is different from mounting a hard drive with ntfs, which requires privileges. |
you can try to use UUID (blkid is useful tool) in the mount params to differentiate flash (fat32) and usbhd (ntfs) with the same device name (in my case /dev/sdc1 for both) |
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rogerdv
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: Re: mount external ntfs drives |
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| dmpogo wrote: | | rogerdv wrote: | | Today I found a problem I had forgotten: I tried to plug an ntfs external hard drive to my PC via USB. I have ntfs-3g and I can properly mount local ntfs drives (configured in fstab), also I can mount flash with a click in thunar, but I have no idea about how to define an external usb hard drive withouth conflicting with normal flash drives that also use /dev/sdb1. How can I solve this? |
What are you asking, how to mount the drive manually when there is no fstab record
(it will be
mount -t ntfs3g /dev/sdwhatever /mnt/whatever *)
you need to specify filesystem explicitly)
or how to make tunar mount it ?
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I would prefer the last choice. But if I have to do it manually, I will. I just want to do it as unprivileged user.
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