Re: [tlug] Trouble with external USB hard disk

[jep200404 <jep200404@example.com>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:30:00 +0900, David Bernat <dbernat@example.com> wrote:

> fstab contains the following information
...
> /root/sdb5 /root auto users,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

1. What is /root/sdb5? 
2. Did you manually type the contents of fstab into the email? 

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:30:00 +0900, David Bernat <dbernat@example.com> wrote:

> /dev/sdb1 /etc auto users,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
...
> sdb is the external USB hard disk

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:19:09 +0900, David Bernat <dbernat@example.com> wrote:

> Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x44634187
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1       38913   312568641    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

As others have noted, this is really wierd. 

3. Why are you mounting the partition at /etc? Please elaborate. 
4. Why are you using a VFAT partition? 
5. Who/what formatted the VFAT partition? 
5. Why are you using 320GB for /etc? 

I wonder if the drive names (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, ...) 
got reordered in the upgrade. 

6. What is the output of the following commands? 

mkdir ~david/foomnt
sudo -t vfat -r /dev/sdb1 ~david/foomnt
df
ls -la ~david/foomnt