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Problems with second hard drive after mounting it.

Asked by Chakib

Hello.

I recently installed Xubuntu 8.10 on my home desktop. It had Windows Vista before. After the installation I noticed that it did not detect the second and third hard drives in my computer. I created the directory "/mnt/Multimedia" and mounted the drive with all my multimedia (/dev/sdc1). Now I have a problem:

Whenever I access the "Multimedia Drive (/dev/sdc1) I can see the folders in the drive, but it does not show any of the files in the folders. It says the folders are empty. The folders contain mp3s, pictures, videos, etc. Can someone please tell me what I need to do?

Also, if you can tell me what I can do to "permanently" mount the disk I would appreciate it. I am having to mount it every time after a reboot.

below is my drive information:

/dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
/dev/sdc1 on /mnt/Multimedia type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)

Thanks in advance,

Chakib

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Chakib (chakib007) said : 		#1

Also, I rebooted with the Live CD for Ubuntu 8.10 and had the same results. The hard drive was automatically mounted, but when I accessed it, it only showed folders, none of the files were there.

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ahowell (alan-howell) said : 		#2

I noticed you have fuseblk as the type, are you attempting to mount an encrypted directory?
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If not try this:

Create a new directory you want to be the multimedia files for example:
mkdir /home/multimedia

Add it to fstab:
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add the following line to it
/dev/sdc1 /home/multimedia auto defaults,errors=remount-rw 0 1

Make sure the drive is unmounted:
sudo umount /mnt/Multimedia

Finally, mount the new drive you added to /etc/fstab:
sudo mount -a

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Good luck :)

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