I have a 250 GB Seagate Expansion Portable Hard Drive that sometimes won't mount. I end up having to use TestDisk to recover my files from it, and then I have to reformat the drive. The drive works for a while, and then it becomes unmountable sometime later. I've had this happen with the drive formatted as NTFS (original) and ext2.
The messages I get in the dialog box when I use the GUI to mount are "Unable to mount device" and "Error<i>org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure</i>". The drive is listed in GParted as /dev/sdc, and the partition is /dev/sdc1. When I try to mount the drive in a shell, I get an error message telling me that it's not listed in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. This is the case whether I try to mount the drive as /dev/sdc, /dev/sdc1, /mnt/sdc, or /mnt/sdc1. I did once try using the shred command to get rid of deleted files and to see if there were any problems. Shred had no difficulty writing to any part of the disk. What exactly is going on here? Does my drive have a hardware problem? What tools can I use to evaluate the condition of this drive? -- Jason Hsu <jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110319130533.c36f405b.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com
