Re: Mounting a hard disk

On Nov 30, 2007 6:02 PM, Preston Hagar <prestonh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am new to Ubuntu, and I would like to mount a hard disk that Ubuntu
did not mount automatically. How can I mount it manually?

try this

sudo mount /dev/hdd1 /media/yournewdrive

Thanks, Isaru. The point is that I do not know whether it is hdb, hdc,
hdd, etc.? How can I learn that?

Two different ways to do this (there are probably more than two, these
are just the two off of the top of my head):

run this command:

dmesg | less

and look for hd or sd entries. If you new disk is SATA or SCSI, it
will start with sd, not hd.

Way 2:

sudo apt-get install lshw
sudo lshw -class disk

This should list all of the disks in your machine.

Thanks, Preston. I am trying the following but with no success:

# mount /dev/sdb2 /media/iso
mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'
root@mypc:/home/paulus# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb2 /media/iso
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

#

Any ideas?

Well, it looks like /dev/sdb2 is part of an LVM setup. Possibly this
drive was setup previously using LVM, or maybe this drive is a member
of your main LVM setup and the drive you actually want is something
different. Unfortunately, I haven't used LVM very much, so I am not
very familiar with it. Here are a couple of How-Tos and guides to
hopefully help out:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lvm/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lvm2.html

You may also try posting the output from dmesg (without the | less) or
the output from the lshw -class disks command. It might help me or
someone else figure out exactly what is setup.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

That is fine, Preston. Maybe someone else will help me.

Paul

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