[GLLUG] Re: Mounting a Drive

[Karl Schuttler]

I might be wrong, but I think this line is wrong...

/dev/hda   /media/share   vfat   defaults,umask=0000   0   0

Right below it you have /dev/hda3 being mounted. I'm pretty sure you
can't mount a device nonspecific towards it's partition, unless it is
a medium like a CD (one partition?).

Just thought it looked funny.

On 1/11/07, Charles Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> umount is for UNmounting drives, Jordan, so that's why it doesn't work
> for you.  You want to use the mount command, but you don't want to use
> the -a option because your fstab is not right for the drive you're
> trying to mount.  /dev/hda3 is NOT a swap partition, so I would just
> delete that line in fstab, or perhaps modify it for /dev/hda2.
>
> See the man page for mount.  Assuming the filesystem on /dev/hda3 is
> ext3 and that /media/ext3 exists, here's how you would mount that device
>
>     sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /media/hda3
>
> If you do not know the filesystem, try it without the -t option.  The
> man page says it will try to determine the filesystem itself, but I've
> never tried that.
>
> If you want to mount that drive automatically every time (even though it
> appears to be a removable or external drive), you could add it to fstab.
>   It would look a little different than the other entries you have in it
> now, so that would be a new question.
>
>                                 Chick
>
>
> Jordan Robison wrote:
> > I am trying to get the top drive to mount( 160.0 GB)
> > This is what my fstab looks like
> >
> > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> > #
> > # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> > proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> > /dev/hdb1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> > /dev/hdb5       none            swap    sw              0       0
> > /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> > /dev/hda   /media/share   vfat   defaults,umask=0000   0   0
> > /dev/hda3    /media/hda3        swap    sw        0    0
> >
> > when I type in sudo umount -a I get this:
> > umount: /dev: device is busy
> > umount: /var/run: device is busy
> > umount: /: device is busy
> >
> > Can anyone help me out?  I don't  want to loose any  information from this
> > drive at all!  It is very important to me that everything stays on this
> > drive.
> >
>
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