[Tfug] Mount Problems (REPOST)

[Christopher Robbins]

Is there any way it's Apple's HFS?

    - Chris

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Brian Murphy
<murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu<murphy%2Btfug at email.arizona.edu>
> wrote:

> 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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Christopher P Robbins
Systems Programmer
Department of English - University of Arizona
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