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Operating Systems Linux Problem mounting extern hd (fedora 9) Post 302228000 by lasthidingplace on Friday 22nd of August 2008 01:07:20 PM
Old 08-22-2008
Problem mounting extern hd (fedora 9)

Hi there, I'm having a bit of a strange problem which I would appreciate some help with.

The Problem:
I have two external hard drives, but I'm borrowing one off my parents to copy data too (one of mine, which is identical to theirs - WD MyBook 300g - is on its way out).

Fedora 9 recognizes both my external hard drives, but when I plugged my parents' one it it just insists that it "cannot mount drive".

Backstory:
I have always used Windows. Last week my external hard drive with all my music and data on it stopped loading (explorer would crash on every computer I tried it on).

My friend suggested I try Linux - my inexperience meant that, instead of using a Live CD, I tried to install it msyelf.

This screwed up my Windows Boot, so I can now only get into fedora 9.

To my suprise, Fedora recognised my hard drive with barely any effort - I was overjoyed to see all my data, so I thought I'll borrow my parents HD which is identical and copy over the data.

However, as stated above, I am unable to mount their drive for some reason. Both my other external USB 2.0 drives mount fine, I have tried thiers in the same USB ports and with the same power supply etc, to no luck. Their drive also works in Windows (I just tried it at work now!).

Can anyone help me here?
 

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mount_pcfs(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    mount_pcfs(1M)

NAME
mount_pcfs - mount pcfs file systems SYNOPSIS
mount -F pcfs [generic_options] [-o FSType-specific_options] special | mount_point mount -F pcfs [generic_options] [-o FSType-specific_options] special mount_point DESCRIPTION
mount attaches an MS-DOS file system (pcfs) to the file system hierarchy at the mount_point, which is the pathname of a directory. If mount_point has any contents prior to the mount operation, these are hidden until the file system is unmounted. If mount is invoked with special or mount_point as the only arguments, mount will search /etc/vfstab to fill in the missing arguments, including the FSType-specific_options; see mount(1M) for more details. The special argument can be one of two special device file types: o A floppy disk, such as /dev/diskette0 or /dev/diskette1. o A DOS logical drive on a hard disk expressed as device-name:logical-drive , where device-name specifies the special block device-file for the whole disk and logical-drive is either a drive letter (c through z) or a drive number (1 through 24). Examples are /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:c and /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:1. The special device file type must have a formatted MS-DOS file system with either a 12-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit File Allocation Table. OPTIONS
generic_options See mount(1M) for the list of supported options. -o Specify pcfs file system specific options. The following options are supported: foldcase|nofoldcase Force uppercase characters in filenames to lowercase when reading them from the filesystem. This is for compatibility with the pre- vious behavior of pcfs. The default is nofoldcase. FILES
/etc/mnttab table of mounted file systems /etc/vfstab list of default parameters for each file system ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mount(1M), mountall(1M), mount(2), mnttab(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), pcfs(7FS) NOTES
If the directory on which a file system is to be mounted is a symbolic link, the file system is mounted on the directory to which the sym- bolic link refers, rather than on top of the symbolic link itself. SunOS 5.10 24 Nov 2003 mount_pcfs(1M)
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