[Tfug] Mount Problems (REPOST)

[Brian Murphy]

Post the fdisk -l output.

Since you mention not formatting it, you likely have a FAT32 filesystem
out of the box.

Brian


Quoting "Charles R. Kiss" <charles at kissbrothers.com>:
> I bought a Lacie OneTouch  750GB  external harddrive.  Like a dummy I
> didn't format it myself; I just plugged it in; copied some files to it
> from my Linux machine, it worked okay, I  mounted it, transfered files,
> etc. without a care. Then, one day, as my Macbook was barely
> booting up, and pooping up and down, I decided to hurry to save files
> before it was too late.  In a panic, I plugged in the Lacie and was barely
> able to copy the files from the Macbook to the Lacie using cp.  It seemed
> to work.  I can't remember if I used cp -a, or if I made a separate
> directory in the Lacie for the storage of the Macbook files, it was two
> months ago. Now, I can't mount the Lacie using mount.  There are
> a few partitions, sdb1, sdb2, etc. that show up, using df or fdisk -l
> (can't remember).  To mount, I tried using -hfs and -hpfs filesystem
> types, etc.  The drive does seem to respond: there's a pause at the
> command prompt and the Lacie light turns on/off.  I'm at the
> point where I think the partition tables are messy.  I could use fsck
> but I don't know what filesystem option I should use being that it might
> have two (ext2 or 3 and hpfs, +??) But maybe I just need
> to reboot the Lacie -maybe I haven't tried that, yet... I can't remember
> (I shouldn't have too, right?). Anyway, let me know if you have
> any ideas. Partition table recovery packages, etc. And thanks again for
> your help with the 32bit vs.64bit help... everything works!!!
>
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