On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:27 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: > Ubuntu 10.10 finds all the drives OK but refuses to mount the IDE hard > drive saying it already has a drive mounted at the same mount point.
Ubuntu mounts removable drives (really, any not in /etc/fstab) in /media/LABEL. LABEL is either the filesystem label, the word "disk", or UUID. I'm guessing that the problem is that one of your other drives is mounting on /media/disk and your IDE drive wants the same location. Ubuntu usually tries to mount on /media/disk-1 in such a case, but I don't have enough information to be sure. However, what you might try doing is giving the filesystem on the IDE drive a new label. How to do it depends on the filesystem. For ext2/3/4 and FAT, the commands are: sudo tune2fs -L newlabel /dev/sdb1 sudo dosfslabel /dev/sdb1 newlabel Once it has a different label, it should auto-mount on another directory. Tyler -- "... that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer upon you greater wisdom or understanding than you possessed when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other." -- Edward R. Murrow -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
