Seagate External HDD Unmountable

[joshh411]

I have been a Linux user for about 6 years now, and recently switched to Fedora just to try something new. I used Ubuntu for the majority of the time so I am somewhat familiar with the command line, but seem to be having trouble with my external HDD. Ubuntu automounted it no problem. Fedora doesn't seem to like to do that. I tried searching and I did what almost every thread insisted upon; which is mount /dev/sdb(that is what dmesg said) but it says already mounted or /mnt/busy. So this is the extent of my Terminal experience with mounting an external drive, and I am completely dumbfounded as to why it simply won't mount. I am liking Fedora so far and so long as there is a remedy for this I don't plan on going back.

[AndrewSerk]

Hello,
To view a list of drives and partitions:

su -c 'fdisk -l'

To view what is already mounted and where:

df

Normally you have to creat a directory to mount a fs too before mounting and then mount to that location. You have to define a partition number to mount on the drive instead of just sdb it should be something like sdb1 for partition 1:

mkdir /media/some_name
su -c 'mount /dev/sdb1 /media/some_name'

Hope this helps

[marko]

Fedora's moved on to using volume labels, you can apply a volume label 'mylabel' to the partition on the drive, then when the drive is plugged in, the mount point will be created in /media/mylabel automatically

this Ubuntu page seems to thoroughly cover it (in this area, the two Linux distributions are similar enough)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive

[joshh411]

Ok so weird its in my menu now, but I cannot open it to edit my files. Also marko the drive is labeled per those instructions(thats how a I partitioned it originally), but Fedora doesn't automatically recognize. Thnx again.

[chetan1991]

Originally Posted by AndrewSerk

Hello,
To view a list of drives and partitions:

su -c 'fdisk -l'

To view what is already mounted and where:

df

Normally you have to creat a directory to mount a fs too before mounting and then mount to that location. You have to define a partition number to mount on the drive instead of just sdb it should be something like sdb1 for partition 1:

mkdir /media/some_name
su -c 'mount /dev/sdb1 /media/some_name'

Hope this helps

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Thank you... Its successful for " segate 1tb go flex" on Fedora 17.