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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu External Hard drive won't mount Post 302204881 by Texasone on Thursday 12th of June 2008 08:27:27 PM
Old 06-12-2008
I just reformatted my drive to ext3 and I still get the same problem. My laptop mounts it, my desktop doesn't. should I reformat to ext2 or should I try changing
Code:
/etc/fstab

for auto-mount. I'm redoing my desktop this weekend, so any advice before would be helpful.

Last edited by Texasone; 06-12-2008 at 09:41 PM..
 

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MOUNT_EXT2FS(8) 					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					   MOUNT_EXT2FS(8)

NAME
mount_ext2fs -- Mount an ext2 file system SYNOPSIS
mount_ext2fs [-o options] special node DESCRIPTION
The mount_ext2fs command attaches an ext2 file system special device on to the file system tree at the point node. Both special and node are converted to absolute paths before use. This command is normally executed by mount(8) at boot time. The options are as follows: -o Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma-separated string of options. See the mount(8) man page for possible options and their meanings. SEE ALSO
mount(2), unmount(2), options(4), fstab(5), mount(8) HISTORY
The mount_ext2fs utility first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2. BUGS
Some ext2-specific options, features or file flags are not supported. BSD
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