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xkeshav
Asked: 2024-08-10 23:06:18 +0800 CST

unable to mount external hard disk in 24.04

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having working external hard disk which is accesble in macOS and windows ( might be NTFS but not sure ) and used to be mounted in windows and mac but when tried in ubuntu ; it gives error

lsblk

show /sda/sda1 is the address ; here is part of output lsblk output

created a directory ~/external we when write

> sudo mount /dev/sda/sda1 ~/external/

mount: /home/user/external: special device /dev/sda/sda1 does not exist (a path prefix is not a directory). dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call

in File manager it display the drive but when click on it external hard disk error

external-hdd

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    /dev/sda/sda1 is NOT a device so fix that please The image also tells you it is /dev/sda1.

    Also please drop the ~.

    sudo mount /dev/sda/sda1 /home/$USER/external/

    from command line. But do alter $USER to the actual directory when using /etc/fstab.

    It is more useful to mount in /media is this is external storage or to a personal mountpoint in / (I use /discworld mysql). I keep my personal directories there too (ie. Desktop, Documents, etc). Makes it portable.

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