backup HD not mounting

[subvertit]

Hello. I have two harddrives, hdb1 and hda3. I recently switched from Mepis linux to Kubuntu and put everything that I needed (music, documents, pictures, etc.) onto hda3 to easier facilitate this transition. Now, with Kubuntu installed on hdb1, I'm unable to mount hda3 because /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab aren't picking it up. Is there a way I can manually get this harddrive recognized? Mepis never had a problem recognizing it. Thanks in advance.

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Reza

[Snowhog]

Re: backup HD not mounting

First, are both drives internal or external (USB)? Second, what version of Kubuntu did you install? Third, open a console and type:

sudo fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab

and copy/paste the results for a review.

[subvertit]

Re: backup HD not mounting

results of 'sudo fdisk -l'

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot   Start     End   Blocks  Id System
/dev/hda1        1    1244   9992398+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2      1245    1371   1019904+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3      1372    14593  106205715  83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot   Start     End   Blocks  Id System
/dev/hdb1  *      1    19272  154802308+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2      19273    19457   1486012+  5 Extended
/dev/hdb5      19273    19457   1485981  82 Linux swap / Solaris

results of 'cat /etc/fstab'

# /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

Both harddrives are internal, IDE-controlled. I'm running Kubuntu v. 6.06.

[subvertit]

Re: backup HD not mounting

any leads? I don't understand this well enough to fix it.

[Snowhog]

Re: backup HD not mounting

You should need only to add the bold entry to your fstab file.

[quote]
# <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/hda3 /media/hda3 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

[subvertit]

Re: backup HD not mounting

Even after adding the above line to my fstab, it still wasn't working. After running QTparted, I discovered that it was formatted as ext2 so I had to change that in fstab and now I have my files. Thank you!

[Snowhog]

Re: backup HD not mounting

You're welcome. I wasn't sure which Linux filesystem type you had on that partition, and assumed it was ext3. Glad you got it straightened out.