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Impossible to mount the volume after installing Debian

Asked by , Edited by Filip Chabik [ Moderator ]

Hi, I’m not an expert and I don’t understand why my just installed Debian refuses to mount other hard disks.


My computer had XP with Ubuntu. After a failed update I decided to install Debian instead of Ubuntu. All things seemed to go well (I’m writing using Debian) but I can’t open other disks.


If I try to do that I receive the message: “Impossible to mount the volume”.


Can anyone help me? Should I give more information?

Thanks a lot.

PS I posted the same messages to a wrong place. Sorry for that.

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karol [ Editor ]

You can install a simple graphical configuration files [disk-manager] Also, you can add an entry in / etc / fstab file. You must edit this file as root.

Forgive the bad, translated english

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lehel [ Editor ]

Check the partition on the other disk(s) with # fdisk -l
Then you will something like:
/dev/sdb1             384        4998    37069956   83  NTFS
than try to mount it with:
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /pathto/mountpoint
than to make it permanent, you will add in your fstab:

/dev/sdb1    /pathto/mountpoint    ntfs-3g    defaults    0 0

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nino

Hi Evgeni.

I just tried to access them from the menu “Computer”. In the meanwhile I’ve seen that my
/etc/fstab doesn’t contain the information about those disks!

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdd1       /               ext2    errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hdd5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

I think I have to add them manually… sorry but I rarely use Linux!

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