External Hard Drive and Kubuntu?

[Lesterness]

I have an external hard drive, connected by USB. It worked well with Windows, also with Ubuntu Breezy Badger/Gnome. Kubuntu refuses to "mount" it. It does mount thumb drives. How can I get Kubuntu to look into the HD where I have most of my writings?

Thanks.

Lesterness
Kunming
China

[Qqmike]

Re: External Hard Drive and Kubuntu?

Try Disk & Filesystems?
Make sure it is connected and turned on.
K > System Settings > Advanced > Disk & Filesystems
Administrator Mode (lower right)
Highlight the drive in the list
Modify
Specify a mount point (example: if it is /dev/sdc3, use: /media/sdc3 as the mount point)
Writeable
Enable at startup
Click so Any user can do anything at any time
OK
Enable
Exit out of the menu


I have no problems using an external USB HDD in 7.10; in fact, have Kubuntu on one of them.

[cacycleworks]

Re: External Hard Drive and Kubuntu?

You beat me to it. However, you're answer is much better than me asking if they tried "Start > Settings > Control panel > Administrative tools > Computer management > Disk management"

Yes - mounting usb HD is easy ... when I forget to disconnect mine, I have rude wake up when i reboot, as my usb HD is my old windows XP install -- and itboots right up! (ewww)

Chris

[Lesterness]

Re: External Hard Drive and Kubuntu?

Thanks, I'll try the instructions. I'm sure it'll be easy after I've done it 2-3 times.

Lesterness
Kunming
China

[Lesterness]

Re: External Hard Drive and Kubuntu?

Sorry, no go. Error messages claim that the HD has NTSF files (windows files, in reality), and that I did not close or exit or something properly. One error message suggested commands to "force" a mount, but it didn't work. Another suggest I change the fstab somehow, but since I don't really understand what I'm doing, I'd rather not do it.

Lesterness

Try Disk & Filesystems?
Make sure it is connected and turned on.
K > System Settings > Advanced > Disk & Filesystems
Administrator Mode (lower right)
Highlight the drive in the list
Modify
Specify a mount point (example: if it is /dev/sdc3, use: /media/sdc3 as the mount point)
Writeable
Enable at startup
Click so Any user can do anything at any time
OK
Enable
Exit out of the menu


I have no problems using an external USB HDD in 7.10; in fact, have Kubuntu on one of them.

[Qqmike]

Re: External Hard Drive and Kubuntu?

Well, I'm not sure I know what next. Except, I recall seeing a similar post recently, dealing with a Windows partition not properly closed/exited/?? and problems mounting it. Someone will chime in here with it, hopefully. Or a search here might find it.
Hang on.

EDIT:
You could try it at the command line in Konsole
If the drive is seen as sdc,
sudo mkdir /media/sdc
sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/sdc
(there's some options to specify for NTFS, if you wish to use them)
Bigpond, home: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/
see: Mounting and Filesystems