automount

Asked by naufal

hello,
I'm running Hardy Heron,I have externel hard drive that have 3 partition in it.The problem is when I plug in the harddrive System cannot automount it.This error appear:
Cannot mount volume.
Unable to mount the volume.
mount_point cannot contain the following characters: newline, G_DIR_SEPARATOR (usually /)

any help would be greatly appreciated.

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naufal (musp-student) said :
#1

hello,
I mean,how can I setting automount for that harddrive..

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Gaurish Sharma (gslive) said :
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By default Ubuntu Auto Mounts all Hard drives.
So i am sure there is some problem specific to your drive

plug the drive after you boot and get the error message of "Unable to mount the volume." . Please ignore it.

1) Open Terminal(Applications>Accessories) and type "dmesg" without quotes.
Please post last 10 lines of the output here. this will show you the error.

2) You can also try to manually mount it, by mount command
eg.

sudo mount -t <file system type> /dev/<partition to mount> /mnt/<mount point>

<file system type> = vfat if fat32 or ntfs or ext3

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Gaurish Sharma (gslive) said :
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More informtation can be found on Mount command by

man mount

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naufal (musp-student) said :
#4

hello,
I can mount that harddrive manually,
but now I want to set automount for my externel harddrive like my other usb device.

this is last 10 lines of the dmesg result:
[ 5337.180361] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Hitachi HTS541680J9AT00 0811 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 5337.193382] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
[ 5337.194806] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[ 5337.194811] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 5337.195924] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
[ 5337.197176] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[ 5337.197181] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 5337.197186] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
[ 5337.528150] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 5337.528205] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

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Gaurish Sharma (gslive) said :
#5

Please check if you have correctly Inserted USB cable into the socket.
Also, try on any alternatie system. so we can can know if there is a problem with the drive itself
Try Plugging it in the Rear socket, Front socket gives problem sometimes.

After you Plug it, wait for 60secs and issue command "dmesg"
post the output here.

and also give me the output of "sudo fdisk -l"

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naufal (musp-student) said :
#6

hello,
problem solved by installing "pmount" and "usbmount" from synaptic package manager.

thanks for all the help..