[GLLUG] Trouble Accessing external UDB hard drives from Western Digital

[Chick Tower]

mount will show you what's already mounted and to what mount point.

Someone suggested using "mount -a", but that's overkill.  If your mount 
point for the external drive is already created, say as /mnt/exthd or 
/media/exthd, and it's properly defined in /etc/fstab, then all you need 
to do is "mount /media/exthd" after you plug in the hard drive and it's 
recognized (which usually takes a few seconds).

If you want both external hard drives mounted at the same time, Dan, 
then you might need to define them in /etc/fstab using UUIDs, or write 
HAL rules to assign auto-mount points to them by identifying them.  The 
HAL rules might not be able to distinguish between drives that are the 
same brand and model, but I've never had that problem.  Or written those 
HAL rules, either.   :)

Note that if you're going to use UUIDs in /etc/fstab, they change when 
you format or reformat them, so get them formatted how you want beforehand.


                                Chick

On 10/14/2011 09:14 AM, Bryan Laur wrote:
> (Or, I think if you just run `mount` afterwards with no arguments it'll
> mount it automatically? not sure on that one.)