New USB hard drive will not show up

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#21

Your question seems to have changed, earlier quote

*linux-vwj5:/home/brent # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00040baa

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2874 30401 221118660 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x04235cb8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 182401 1465136001 7 HPFS/NTFS*

Your issue was the external ntfs drive, now you are asking about your linux file system on sda3

Please clarify

#22

linux-vwj5:~ # /dev/sda3
bash: /dev/sda3: Permission denied

What are you trying to do here?

You could type ‘mount’ to see what is mounted. There needs to be an entry in your /etc/fstab if you want /dev/sda3 to be mounted at boot. Otherwise you could mount manually with something like

mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /mnt/test

where /mnt/test directory needs to exist first.

#23

Okay I am totally lost on what to do with this Hardrive.
Could we please start over from scratch. I am currently running Open SUSE 11.0 on my laptop and bought a Seagate Free Agent extreme 1.5 TB drive to specifically create a backup image of my laptop and store extra data I have in several smaller HDs. When I plug this drive in it does not automatically show up at all, which is not the norm for the rest of my USB HDs. I have been able to find it though terminal with your help, but so far I have not been able to access it. I am still learning how to use terminal comands and it can be frustrating at times.
I hooked the Seagate drive up to my other laptop (running vista) and reformated the entire drive for NTFS. The drive works just fine with the vista box. Is there a way I can do this with my SUSE machine?
It is too late for me to return the drive to the store so I have to either make it work or get a different drive. Any suggestions?

#24

Make sure you have installed: ntfs-3g and libfuse2 (or fuse which brings libfuse2 with it).

Then in a terminal do:

sudo ln -s /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs

reboot

report back
post back the output of a su terminal:

fdisk -l
#25

Here are my results.

linux-vwj5:/home/brent # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00040baa

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2874 30401 221118660 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x04235cb8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 182401 1465136001 7 HPFS/NTFS

#26

What you should do you have Vista ok.Which windows do you have win2000 or winxp.If you have WinXP.
First turn on your ext.HD then go to WinXP.
Second did you use in Windows only for a short time with your USB HD?

Mike

#27

I guess we can assume you could not see your device, but that you did follow the earlier advice. And you checked in /media of your tree?

Now open a terminal and become su
Now type the following:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media
#28

Okay I did what you said.

linux-vwj5:/home/brent # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media
linux-vwj5:/home/brent #

#29

so now look in the /media directory

#30

Okay I looked in the in /media and did not see anything. I was able to find this

linux-vwj5:~ # ls /media
.hal-mtab-lock

linux-vwj5:~ # ls /media:
sdb1

For some reason I have 2 media folders, one is locked up by root and the other is accessible by other users.

#31

Do

cat /etc/mtab
#32

Sorry that I am in and out on trying to fix my USB hardrive problem and I am more than thankfull for everyone that has tried to help me.
I went out and bought a new Iomega Prestige 1TB hard drive (not sure what to do with the old one from earlier in this post). At least I know I can take it back this time.
I also just finished with an upgrade from 11.0 to 11.1 and was hoping this would clear up any of my issues.
My computer sees my new hard drive but comes up with the following message

*$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 1) Failed to mount ‘/dev/sdb1’: Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action: Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by clicking on the ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ icon in the Windows taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly. Choice 2: If you don’t have Windows then you can use the ‘force’ option for your own responsibility. For example type on the command line: mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/Iomega HDD -o force Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file: /dev/sdb1 /media/Iomega HDD ntfs-3g force 0 0 *

I am not sure what I need to do in order to get this new drive up and running.

#33

How important to you is it to have NTFS on this drive? Is there any data on it?

I would like to try something.
If you have windows, you should be able to format the drive to FAT32 or use a utility disc like Parted Magic to do it.

How does it behave with the disc as FAT (remember the max file size of any one file on FAT is 4GB<

Let us know