[wellylug] Missing harddrive

[Rob van der Linde]

As soon as you plug the drive in, Ubuntu should automatically "mount"
the drive, this should give you an icon on the desktop to the drive, as
well as an entry to the drive in the "Places" menu.

In Ubuntu, all drives are mounted under the /media folder, usually when
it automounts it will look at the volume label of the disk and use that
as the name of the mount point. It may be /media/external or /media/disk
or something.

Make sure you remove the drive properly when finished by right clicking
the icon on the desktop and choosing unmount. Otherwise if it is an NTFS
drive it may not mount properly next time until you scan the disk for
errors.

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 23:30 +1200, Ray Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> I have attached an USB harddrive to my Ubuntu box. The system
> recognizes the HDD and I can access it via storage media. I am using
> XBMC as a media player and I cannot find the external drive through
> the XBMC add source option. Where does Ubuntu hide the drive. The
> permissions for the drive are listed as root and root, but it also
> says others can view the files on the drive. Any help would be
> appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Ray
> 
> -- 
> Ray Smith
> 32 Kummer Crescent
> Masterton, NI
> 5810
> New Zealand
> 
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