External and Internal HDD Access...

General Discussion
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Am running a 1TB external HDD on Ubuntu 12.04.

Internal Sata drive is 250 GB running Lubuntu 12.04

The comp is an old Dell machine I built from scrap.

Machine running very well.

Can I access the internal HDD while booted from the external HDD to transfer/copy files ect.

Grateful for any help.

Jocklad

2

Yes … is it not being displayed in the left hand column of your file manager ?

3

The only way I can see to show the 250GB is if I go to Dash Home and open Disk Utility.

Jocklad

4

What’s the output from:

sudo fdisk -l

and

sudo blkid

and

mount

[EDIT]

In Disk Utillity … is there an option to mount the partitions on the 250GB drive ?

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ben@ben-Dell-DV051:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for ben:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007af40

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 484222975 242110464 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 484225022 488396799 2085889 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 484225024 488396799 2085888 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000170586112 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121597 cylinders, total 1953458176 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001064b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 1949282303 974640128 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 1949284350 1953456127 2085889 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1949284352 1953456127 2085888 82 Linux swap / Solaris
ben@ben-Dell-DV051:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID=“b52d5388-7970-47b4-9ddb-9be2f47bb69b” TYPE=“ext4”
/dev/sda5: UUID=“7dc675cd-7554-4e8c-8418-1bd752be5346” TYPE=“swap”
/dev/sdb1: UUID=“1300b0c8-47d5-4109-aef5-09614ade2471” TYPE=“ext4”
/dev/sdb5: UUID=“dfb290e1-81cc-460a-83e3-20dee0b33ca1” TYPE=“swap”
ben@ben-Dell-DV051:~$ mount
/dev/sdb1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/ben/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ben)
ben@ben-Dell-DV051:~$

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In Disk Utillity … is there an option to mount the partitions on the 250GB drive ?

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Can only see an option to mount volume

7

Yeah, in Disk Utility highlight the partition on the 250GB drive (sda1), then click “Mount Volume”

Now see if it’s available in the left column of your file manager.

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8

Got it.

Its now showing in the Launcher.

Many thanks for your help.

Jocklad ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

9

No problem :slight_smile: