Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount and exfat

2012-10-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 06:40 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2012, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Any idea how I can get the mount command to recognise exfat? It works as root but not via fstab for users. bunyip ~ # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp mount: unknown filesystem type

[gentoo-user] Re: mount and exfat

2012-10-29 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 30 October 2012, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Any idea how I can get the mount command to recognise exfat? It works as root but not via fstab for users. bunyip ~ # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat' bunyip ~ # mount.exfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp FUSE exfat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:35:44 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyway, you don't need to add something to remind you of the partition's position; /etc/mtab will use regular device names, so you can see what's going on with 'cat /etc/mtab' or simply 'mount' without parameters. cfdisk also

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nikos! On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:29:19AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: The default in new kernels is to only use /dev/sd*. I'm totally confused. Doesn't sd* mean SCSI disk drive? When I was installing Gentoo from the CD, I had to mount my main hard drive as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Alan Mackenzie wrote: So the kernel guys have decided that nobody would ever want more than 15 partitions on a drive. From memory I recall that this has always been the limit for SATA/SCSI drives. For ATA drives I think it is 63? Not sure if this is a Linux OS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:05:10 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: So the kernel guys have decided that nobody would ever want more than 15 partitions on a drive. It's a bit like the old MS-DOS restriction to 512 MB all over again. Hey, guys, hard drives nowadays are like 200 gig, not 512meg.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick, On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008, Alan Mackenzie wrote: So the kernel guys have decided that nobody would ever want more than 15 partitions on a drive. From memory I recall that this has always been the limit for SATA/SCSI drives.

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: [...] What would be the recommended way of upgrading from the /dev/hd to /dev/sd then? I have held back doing this because I didn't have the time to mess about with it. If I were to configure a new kernel without legacy ATA drivers, how would I know what my devices will be seen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: [...] What would be the recommended way of upgrading from the /dev/hd to /dev/sd then? I have held back doing this because I didn't have the time to mess about with it. If I were to configure a new kernel without legacy ATA drivers, how would I know

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: [...] What would be the recommended way of upgrading from the /dev/hd to /dev/sd then? I have held back doing this because I didn't have the time to mess about with it. If I were to configure a new kernel without legacy ATA drivers, how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: [...] What would be the recommended way of upgrading from the /dev/hd to /dev/sd then? I have held back doing this because I didn't have the time to mess about with it. If I were to configure a new kernel without

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:29:19AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: The CD/DVD-ROM can show up as /dev/sd* even with the old legacy drivers if you have enable SCSI Emulation for it. In any event, try to build a new kernel using the new drivers. The old legacy driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: [...] What would be the recommended way of upgrading from the /dev/hd to /dev/sd then? I have held back doing this because I didn't have the time to mess about with it. If I were to

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: [...] Question, if I were to label mine and then boot from a Gentoo or any other bootable CD, would those labels still be there? The labels are part of the file system; they're always there. For example, when booting the 2007.0 LiveDVD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: [...] Question, if I were to label mine and then boot from a Gentoo or any other bootable CD, would those labels still be there? The labels are part of the file system; they're always there. For example, when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: True but I have trouble remembering which partition is home and which is portage, until I mount them anyway. It's obvious then. I guess according to another reply that I will have to use something else for resierfs. I guess it can't hurt to much. Worst thing is to have to

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Dale wrote: True but I have trouble remembering which partition is home and which is portage, until I mount them anyway. It's obvious then. I guess according to another reply that I will have to use something else for resierfs. I guess it can't hurt to much. Worst thing is to

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: The labels are part of the file system; they're always there. For example, when booting the 2007.0 LiveDVD (which uses the legacy drivers, meaning /dev/hd* instead of /dev/sd*) the labels are there and I can mount

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo? I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special optimiesed keyboard layout. :-) However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works, because I installed Gentoo from it. When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom , it

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Miernik
Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard drives are (don't ask!)). Maybe there was some /dev/sda /dev/sdb or something similar? Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nikos, On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:06:15PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them works, because I installed Gentoo from it. When I do mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom , it comes back with special

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Miernik, On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:13:09PM +0200, Miernik wrote: Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard drives are (don't

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan Mackenzie wrote: The default in new kernels is to only use /dev/sd*. I'm totally confused. Doesn't sd* mean SCSI disk drive? When I was installing Gentoo from the CD, I had to mount my main hard drive as /dev/sdb5. When I built my own kernel, it needed /dev/hdh5. This seems crazy. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist. What does this mean?

2008-07-19 Thread Graham Murray
Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's /dev/sda and /dev/sda1, and no other /dev/sd*. That's where my UBS stick gets mounted. What about any /dev/sr*?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-27 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:53:40 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: There is no need to do so. However, a fuse based filesystem for mounting audio CDs exists, see http://castet.matthieu.free.fr/cddfs/. Oh, thank you all for your input -- I've been a bit obsessed with rails and let this go to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-27 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:53:40 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: There is no need to do so. However, a fuse based filesystem for mounting audio CDs exists, see http://castet.matthieu.free.fr/cddfs/. Oh, thank you all for your input -- I've

[gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-26 Thread Thufir
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:53:40 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: There is no need to do so. However, a fuse based filesystem for mounting audio CDs exists, see http://castet.matthieu.free.fr/cddfs/. Oh, thank you all for your input -- I've been a bit obsessed with rails and let this go to the back

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:15:48 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: In this case, the discs are fine, as are the drives. The drives mount fine in Fedora and read these particular discs fine (music CD's). You don't mount audio CDs. -- Neil Bothwick Procrastinate now! signature.asc Description: PGP

[gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-23 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:36:44 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: I also found (with Google) one forum posting where it was stated that the cause was a bad, self-burned disk in the drive. When the poster changed the disk, the problem disapeared. In this case, the discs are fine, as are the drives.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:11:06 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:15:48 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: In this case, the discs are fine, as are the drives. The drives mount fine in Fedora and read these particular discs fine (music CD's). You don't mount

[gentoo-user] Re: mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2007-11-22 Thread Thufir
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:20:43 +, Stroller wrote: A Google seems to suggest that mount: No buffer space available is commonly returned when the device is already mounted. Oh, I wasn't finding that or didn't know how to interpret it. The manpage for `mount` indicates that `mount -a` will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander, Do you know if the system described above is what ntfs-g3 does too? One could never determine something that basic from the man page supplied with it. After reading it, I still know nothing about how it works. With a

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-10 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yikes ... looks like my literacy level is greviously low.. First, sorry this got somewhat disjointed. I think you may have already ansered what I wanted to know but for the sake of clarity. The `puppy' live cd described in my quotation says it can create a file

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread reader
Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes. It's called ntfs3g. There's an ebuild for it. Thanks for that tip, Alexander - it works well here. Peter or Alexander, can you give a few details of what you are able to do with it? Can I put that on a live CD and boot with the cd, then be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes. It's called ntfs3g. There's an ebuild for it. Thanks for that tip, Alexander - it works well here. Peter or Alexander, can you give a few details of what you are able to do with it? I don't use it - I just read about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Or does anyone know if any of the Live CDs `knoppix' style have this tool on board? ntfs3g is *VERY* *VERY* new. I don't think that a knoppix style CD already has it. But I *bet*, that they'll have it quite soon. Hi On

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Gian Domeni Calgeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or does anyone know if any of the Live CDs `knoppix' style have this tool on board? ntfs3g is *VERY* *VERY* new. I don't think that a knoppix style CD already has it. But I *bet*, that they'll have it quite soon. Hi On

[gentoo-user] Re: Mount and write ntfs (natively)

2006-08-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander, Do you know if the system described above is what ntfs-g3 does too? One could never determine something that basic from the man page supplied with it. After reading it, I still know nothing about how it works. With a disk mounted under this

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-28 Thread Peter
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:15:14 -0800, Grant wrote: Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my server to the latest hardened-sources kernel. I'm trying to mount my /dev/hda1 partition to /boot but I'm getting the error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' It's true that I don't have ext2 support

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2005-12-28 Thread Grant
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my server to the latest hardened-sources kernel. I'm trying to mount my /dev/hda1 partition to /boot but I'm getting the error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' It's true that I don't have ext2 support compiled into my kernel, but I never have.

[gentoo-user] Re: mount umount and xterm freeze

2005-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:02:07 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: So far I've used the old MS refrain `reboot, reboot, and reboot' to clear up the mounts but I'm sure there is some better way or maybe a way to prevent this from the start. umount -l

[gentoo-user] Re: mount umount and xterm freeze

2005-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still I can't get to those shares without a reboot of gentoo it seems. That reboot must clear something that probably can be cleared manually without a reboot Even the above referenced reboot was frozen at the point of umounting local fs. Requiring

[gentoo-user] Re: mount mac disks?

2005-10-15 Thread Mark Knecht
I found HFS HFSPLUS file system support in the kernel so I'm building that now. There are also hfsutils and hfsplusutils but the later seems to be masked in a way that I don't know how to get around: lightning linux # emerge -pv hfsutils hfsplusutils These are the packages that I would merge,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount mac disks?

2005-10-15 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/15/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found HFS HFSPLUS file system support in the kernel so I'mbuilding that now. Actually OS X disks are formated HFS+ so no need to build HFS support. There are also hfsutils and hfsplusutils but the later seems to bemasked in a way that I don't

[gentoo-user] Re: mount

2005-04-14 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 14 April 2005 22:12, Al Bayrouni wrote: Hello all, I want to mount an iso file ont /mnt/iso directorie. I have this message when I run this command: mount /mnt/packages-x86-2005.0.iso /mnt/iso -o loop=/dev/loop0, /dev/loop0: no such file or directorie mount -o loop