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Mounting harddisk

Asked by onty4u

I am new to ubuntu. I have a hadrdisk that i'm not able to mount.will u tell me how to mount it in an easy language??whenever i tried to mount it,privilege denied is displayed.plzzz help..

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Please, open a terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

sudo fdisk -l

(give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

to get partition list and then copy and paste the result here.

Reading the result, the tell us which partition do you want to mount.

Thank you

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onty4u (sandipcomplete) said : 		#2

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xde4b4970

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 188 1510078+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 189 9729 76638082+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 189 9729 76638051 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x373a3739

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 4479 35977536 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 4845 30400 205278570 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb3 4480 4844 2931862+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb5 4845 12493 61440561 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 12494 21417 71681998+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb7 21418 30400 72155916 7 HPFS/NTFS

I want to mount dev/sda....that's the other hard disk...

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onty4u (sandipcomplete) said : 		#3

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xde4b4970

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 188 1510078+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 189 9729 76638082+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 189 9729 76638051 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x373a3739

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 4479 35977536 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 4845 30400 205278570 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb3 4480 4844 2931862+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb5 4845 12493 61440561 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 12494 21417 71681998+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb7 21418 30400 72155916 7 HPFS/NTFS

I want to mount dev/sda....that's the other hard disk...

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

First please tell have you already tried to mount access to the sda partititons using nautilus
Open nautilus fro menu the Places→Home Folder then look to the left panel and try to mount the wanted partitions.

If this doesn't solve please create two mount point open a terminal and type:

mkdir sda1mp
mkdir sda5mp

sudo mount /dev/sda1 sda1mp
sudo mount /dev/sda5 sda5mp

(give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

Then try...

Hope this helps

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onty4u (sandipcomplete) said : 		#5

thanks a lot....it worked...