captain-sensible
Well-Known Member
ok with that you can create the mount point - lets do it manually lets just mount first , then try to get it in write
just done the same scenario on my laptop :
on my system /media/$USER exists //$USER = andrew
so you can use $USER instead of typing your name on your system and on here , when you are in nome root mode
sudo mkdir /media/$USER/stuff creates a directory for contents of usb/ext hd to mount
/dev/sdb1 is my partition on /dev/sdb
so yours should be :
Here we are assigning the actual HD partition to be mounted to "stuff" at /media/yourUsername so name of Old "space" Stuff doesn't need to come into it
naviage with file manager to your username/stuff and see if anything is there
if you can get it mounted then:
1) we have confirmed the name in terms of udev or whatever- that might change if you add another usb. hd or remove anything
2) if you can mount it, at least we have mounted the right disk.
Next step will be to try to forece a re-mount with write permissions
just done the same scenario on my laptop :
Code:
[andrew@darkstar:~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/$USER/stuff (09-29 09:19)
mount: /media/andrew/stuff: mount point does not exist.
[andrew@darkstar:~][32]$ sudo mkdir /media/$USER/stuff (09-29 09:20)
[andrew@darkstar:~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/$USER/stuff (09-29 09:21)
[andrew@darkstar:~]$ cd /media/$USER/stuff (09-29 09:21)
[andrew@darkstar:andrew/stuff]$ ls (09-29 09:21)
AAArchLaptop/ etc etc
on my system /media/$USER exists //$USER = andrew
so you can use $USER instead of typing your name on your system and on here , when you are in nome root mode
sudo mkdir /media/$USER/stuff creates a directory for contents of usb/ext hd to mount
/dev/sdb1 is my partition on /dev/sdb
so yours should be :
Code:
from normal user $:
sudo mkdir /media/$USER/stuff
sudo mount /dev/sdg2/ /media/$USER/stuff
naviage with file manager to your username/stuff and see if anything is there
if you can get it mounted then:
1) we have confirmed the name in terms of udev or whatever- that might change if you add another usb. hd or remove anything
2) if you can mount it, at least we have mounted the right disk.
Next step will be to try to forece a re-mount with write permissions
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