Mount host hard drive in Arch VM

i've got archlinux installed in a virtual machine with vmware workstation 8 hosted on win7.
the open vmware tools for archlinux aren't working.
Is there any alternative way of mounting the host hard drives in the virtual machine?
now i access them with samba.. :S

You may be able to add a 'passthrough' device. I think Workstation can do that. But I have only used passthrough when the entire hdd was otherwise idle (none of the partitions were mounted by the host OS).

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Mount external hard drive on boot

I have a Mac mini run on SL, I want to set it up as a samba server with a external hard drive which formatted in NFS format.
I tried to write a plist in LaunchDaemons to call a script to mount the hard drive, but it does not work.
Here is my plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.kg.mount</string>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/System/Library/script/com.kg.mount</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
It get loaded at the start, if I user command 'launchctl list', I can see the service is loaded, but the disk is not mounted. If I run the plist manually after boot, the disk will be mounted.
Does somebody know how to mount a disk at boot time?
Thanks

The OS automatically mounts storage devices when they come online. If that doesn't happen, you need to fix the problem.
First back up the disk, if you haven't already done that.
Get rid of the script and the launchd item. Unload it first -- I assume you know how to do that.
Launch Disk Utility and select the "EX" volume, then run "Repair Disk." If any errors are reported, repeat until there are no more.
If the disk is now mounted, unmount it. Check the /Volumes directory for any empty subdirectories named "EX", "EX-1", or some such. If present, delete them.
Unplug the drive, then plug it in again. If it still doesn't mount, plug it into a different port (if it's USB.) If it still doesn't mount, try it on a different Mac.

I am having some issues getting OS X to mount the hard drive from my old laptop (Windows 7). Is there anything I can do to mount this?

I am having some issues getting OS X to mount the hard drive from my old laptop (Windows 7). Is there anything I can do to mount this?
It is not showing on the Desktop or the left colomn of Finder (Set to do both in Finder Prefernces) and is not showing up under the Disk application under Utilities (Sorry can't remember the name off the top of my head!)

cjz0r wrote:
...I'm starting to think it is most likely NTFS, am I looking at needing an Application to read the NTFS partitions on the drive?
You should be able to read NTFS formatted drives, just not write to them. For that matter, USB Flash drives generally come formatted NTFS for use with PC's and they have to be able to mount on a Mac in order to reformat them for Mac use. The Windows utilities supplied on those Flash drives will be deleted when the drive is reformatted for Mac use so I routinely copy them to the Mac desktop first before reformatting.
You might look into something like this http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/U3NVSPATA/ if the enclosure is an issue. It looks weird but it works.

How to Mount a hard drive to MAC BOOK PRO?

How to Mount a hard drive to MAC BOOK PRO?

What kind of hard drive? If it's an external USB hard drive, just plug it in to a USB port. It will mount automatically.

Hyper-V 2012 R2 HOST hard drive limit

Is there a limit to the size of the HOST hard drive?
I recently loaded Hyper-V on a server with a 2500GB hard drive array. I did not notice till it was too late (server already in production with Guests) that the install created a 2047 GB partition and left 466 GB 'unallocated'.
Is there a 2 TB limit on the HOST?

Milos,
I am afraid I am not able to figure this out.
I really want my server to use the whole disk as "C".
How do I create the full 2.5 TB disk?
I have tried playing with diskpart but either Hyper-V 2012 R2 will not install to the disk or it over rides the GPT setting and returns it to MBR.

XP Mounting USB Hard Drive

Hello - I am trying to connect my USB hard drive to Airport Extreme under Windows XP Pro (SP3), but am unable to successfully mount the hard drive. I have gone through all of the instructions via Apple's support documentation without success (I get an error msg stating the disk needs repair). Are there better instructions out there? Do I need to setup other system configs in XP in order to use the disk wirelessly? Thanks!

Yes, I did install the CD that came with the AEBSn, and have since updated the firmware, etc. I can access the utility, but the only thing that happens is it tells me the disk needs repair.
The drive is NTFS formatted.
Thank you for your reply!

[SOLVED] Arch won't mount my hard drives correctly, problems at boot.

Sometimes (only sometimes) Arch Linux will have an error during bootup because my Linux drive gets mounted as sdb instead of sda. My NTFS Sata storage drives gets mounted in its place as sda.
When this happens, Arch Linux will stop booting at the "checking filesystems" step:
:: Checking Filesystems [BUSY]
/dev/sda3:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a corect ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
[FAIL]
**************** FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED ****************
* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root *
* file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount *
* it read-write type: mount -n -o remount,rw / *
* When you exit the maintenance shell the system will *
* reboot automatically. *
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
And from there i have to remount my drives manually or restart the computer. Everytime I start the computer, I simply have to hope that my Linux drive will mount as sda. It's totally hit and miss.
Now, I know that my superblock is not corrupt. fsck is failing because it is looking for my linux filesystem on sda. It is encountering my NTFS Sata drive on sda instead of the expected Linux ext filesystem.
So how do I know that this is happening?
Well, after giving the root password, it shows the root prompt
[root@(none) ~]#
and i proceed to use the lshw command to see what's up with the drives:
[root@(none) ~]# lshw -short | grep /dev/
/0/6/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk 120GB WDC WD1200JB-00E
/0/6/0.0.0/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 101MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/6/0.0.0/2 /dev/sdb2 volume 258MiB Linux swap volume
/0/6/0.0.0/3 /dev/sdb3 volume 7506MiB EXT4 volume
/0/6/0.0.0/4 /dev/sdb4 volume 104GiB EXT4 volume
/0/6/0.1.0 /dev/sdc disk 81GB Maxtor 6Y080P0
/0/6/0.1.0/1 /dev/sdc1 volume 76GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/8/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 640GB Hitachi HDT72106
/0/8/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 596GiB Windows NTFS volume
So, clearly, this shows that my Linux drive has gotten mounted as sdb and my NTFS Sata drive has gottem mounted as sda. It's totally random: sometimes they mount vice versa and the system boots just fine.
When Arch does happen to mount itself properly as sda and the system starts successfully, then the lshw command shows this:
[root@(none) ~]# lshw -short | grep /dev/
/0/6/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 120GB WDC WD1200JB-00E
/0/6/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 101MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/6/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 258MiB Linux swap volume
/0/6/0.0.0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 7506MiB EXT4 volume
/0/6/0.0.0/4 /dev/sda4 volume 104GiB EXT4 volume
/0/6/0.1.0 /dev/sdb disk 81GB Maxtor 6Y080P0
/0/6/0.1.0/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 76GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/8/0.0.0 /dev/sdc disk 640GB Hitachi HDT72106
/0/8/0.0.0/1 /dev/sdc1 volume 596GiB Windows NTFS volume
The above correctly mounted format shows the drives in the same order as my Hard Disk boot priority in BIOS as well as in the same order as during the initial drive detection directly following the memory test (don't know if it has anything to do with it though).
So my question is this. How do I ensure that Arch Linux mounts itself as sda ALL of the time, and not randomly?
Or should I remove my sda entries in etc/fstab and let Arch determine where my Linux filesystems are? If so, how?
It's interesting to note that GRUB is set to boot Arch Linux from hd0, which should be sda.
It's also intriguing to note that if I take out my Sata drive, I never encounter this problem.
Last edited by trusktr (2010-06-15 07:49:31)

Thanks kgas, here's what i found out so far:
Alright so after rebooting, this is what i determined:
When Linux mounts the drives incorrectly (take note of the parts in bold, the short numbers are NTFS filesystems, long numbers the Linux filesystems):
[trusktr@rocketship ~]$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 01CA836D8BE82040 -> ../../[b]sdc1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 0ddf0e41-e7e6-4af5-b0e9-bc79a91b12eb -> ../../[b]sdb1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 92b88528-dd0f-4c1b-bcce-54084ef2aceb -> ../../[b]sdb4[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 C838CF5838CF4462 -> ../../[b]sda1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 cdb33de5-0100-4c5f-a9b1-5c1a444e6eac -> ../../[b]sdb3[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 d0a5d49d-169d-43ce-af0f-216dc4a9f604 -> ../../[b]sdb2[/b]
So an NTFS filesystem is mounted in sda instead of the Linux filesystem
When Linux mounts everything properly:
[trusktr@rocketship ~]$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 01CA836D8BE82040 -> ../../[b]sdb1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 0ddf0e41-e7e6-4af5-b0e9-bc79a91b12eb -> ../../[b]sda1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 92b88528-dd0f-4c1b-bcce-54084ef2aceb -> ../../[b]sda4[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 C838CF5838CF4462 -> ../../[b]sdc1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 cdb33de5-0100-4c5f-a9b1-5c1a444e6eac -> ../../[b]sda3[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 d0a5d49d-169d-43ce-af0f-216dc4a9f604 -> ../../[b]sda2[/b]
This doesn't tell us much except that I indeed do have uuid's for all the drives.
So, i guess as kgas said, i probably need to use the uuid in fstab so that Linux always knows which hard drive is the linux drive! In that case, only the uuid for the Linux drive will be necessary. For the other drives it wouldn't matter so much i guess since they don't contain the operating system.
Alright, i'll be back to determine if this fixes it!
Last edited by trusktr (2010-06-15 06:41:25)

Mounting USB Hard Drives and Hard Locking

So, it's been a long time since I've posted here which I have to say, is because Arch was running beautifully for a long time. Sadly though, my laptop was stolen and I was forced to buy a new one. With the new one, I've gotten everything mostly back up and running but I'm having an issue. Obviously the one in the subject line.
A few things to note about this install and after testing before posting.
1. Brand new install
2. All packages are current EXCEPT 3. I currently have nvidia-256.53-1-x86_64, nvidia-utils with the same version, and kernel26-2.6.35.5-1. These are due to a black screen I was getting on starting my xserver.
3. HAL is running
4. Optical disks mount and umount cleanly.
5. NTFS-3G is installed and working.
6. My Windows 7 install on the same internal hard drive can be accessed and mounted without a hard lock.
My problem is this. Whenever I try and connect an external hard drive via USB, it takes a few seconds and then the whole machine hard locks with what looks like a kernel panic(can't do anything and I have blinking lights...ie capslock, etc). This computer seems to have USB 3.0 which I noticed from Win7 awhile back if that makes a difference. (05:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation Device 0194 (rev 03) )
Last time I try to mount my WD Passport, I ran dmesg right after I plugged it in before I got my hard lock. The only thing I noticed were the entries at the bottom of things like this...
xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
I have no idea whether that has anything to do with it or not. I'd be more than happy to post config files if needed. I've tried googling, the wiki, and the forums and I'm stumped. I actually plugged my drive in one time and got it to mount and opened some folders. Afterward, it hard locked.
Last edited by Vipes (2010-12-10 07:09:42)

So, I started looking at my logs. Here's Dec 10 08:04:03 localhost kernel: sd Dec 10 08:04:03 localhost kernel: sd Dec 10 08:04:03 localhost kernel: sd Cut from my dmesg when I plugged the usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi6 : usb-storage 2-4:1.0 usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 scsi 6:0:0:1: CD-ROM WD sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 623769600 512-byte sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 10 00 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 51x/51x caddy sr 6:0:0:1: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 sr 6:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sdb: scsi 6:0:0:2: Enclosure WD SES Device scsi 6:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 13 sdb1 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint ses 6:0:0:2: Attached Enclosure device xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint fuse init (API version 7.14) xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: WARN: Stalled Kernel messages show pretty much the the bottom cut from errors.log:
6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
drive in:
xhci_hcd and address 0

My Passport 070A 1032 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4

Virtual CD 070A 1032 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
logical blocks: (319 GB/297 GiB)

1032 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4

endpoint
same thing. These logs were from just a moment ago when I plugged it in and then removed it. Sometimes it seems to hard lock, others it doesn't. Got me.

Trouble mounting external hard drives to my Macbook after restoring it to factory settings. Solutions??

I just restored my Macbook Version 10.4.11 to factory settings because I heard that it is good to do that to clean it up. I had saved everything on a WD My Book 1110 Media, but now when I try to retrieve the stuff on there, the WD won't even mount.
The whole reason I was needing to make room on my macbook is the computer was freezing up and acting really slowly. I'm about to do a recording project using Protools and needed the macbook to be fast. I thought restoring it would help. Instead, it now won't mount my Glyph, which I need to run protools.
Then was when I tried to mount the WD hard drive and it wouldn't mount either!!!! I'm guessing the problem is with the mac, since both hard drives would not mount. The glyph is connected with a firewire, and the WD is connect by USB. I'm clueless as to what to do. I definitely need to recover the stuff on the WD hard drive.
One other thing: the drives do show up in Disk Utility, but the mount button is gray so I can't do that. Here is the info:
Name :           WD My Book 1110 Media
          Type :           Disk
          Disk Identifier :           disk1
          Media Name :           WD My Book 1110 Media
          Media Type :           Generic
          Connection Bus :           USB
          Connection Type :           External
          USB Serial Number :           574D41563530363834343732
          Partition Type :           Apple_partition_scheme
          Writable :           Yes
          Ejectable :           Yes
          Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed :           No
          Location :           External
          Total Capacity :           465.1 GB (499,405,291,520 Bytes)
          S.M.A.R.T. Status :           Not Supported
          Disk Number :           1
          Partition Number :           0
Do I need to install Mac OS 9 Driver? If so, how can I do that with out losing any data from my WD hard drive.
I'm clueless. Any help would be much appreciated.

The OS 9 Driver would only be applicable if you were to use OS X
and OS 9 from the external drive; it is not necessary for OS 9 files
to be stored on an external drive, only if you were to use Classic
or OS 9 on there.
So it would be unable to host an OS 9.2.2 system for Classic or
any applications that would require read-write on external HDD.
{What of the WD HDD's driver update, in link? Do Not update
Western Digitals 'firmware' as it also is available, & wipes HD.}
The linked driver download, for the WD drive itself, may (or not) be
installable without harming data on the drive. I read where that driver
can support back to OS X Tiger 10.4.11, so it would support Tiger final.
Do you have an original source for the Glyph & Pro-
Tools, outside of the saved content of the WD HDD?
Another idea, could be the enclosure of the WD may have failed while the drive inside is OK. Would not be the first time, so that may be something to consider. If you get another enclosure, be sure if there are any jumper changes for WD drive to be compatible, they match. You may be able to get one of those cables to use instead of the enclosure, that allows the external drive itself to run; they usually include a power adapter, but the WD may not have had an external. However the cable set to run a bare drive often includes one.
Hopefully you can restore access to the external drive
& then find a better backup scheme, in duplicate.
Good luck & happy computing!

How do I format and mount a hard drive?

I was successfully using Time Machine to back up my MacBook Pro to an iomega USB portable hard drive. I was doing it the low-tech way by simply plugging the HD into the USB port of my laptop and letting Time Machine run to its heart content. Then I decided to get smart, or dumb. I plugged the HD into a Netgear Router thinking I could use the wireless network to access the iomega for Time Machine backups. That didn't work as well as I expected so I tried to revert back to the old low tech system of plugging the HD into the USB port. Unfortunately, now the disk won't mount and all efforts using disk utility to verify and repair the disk have failed. How do I get back to where I was? Or, have I messed this up to the point where I shoud just buy a new HD at the Apple Store and start from scratch?

Drive Partition and Format
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
The drive should now be properly partitioned and formatted for the Mac. You can now use it as you wish.
Note that you cannot us Time Machine to backup to an external drive connected to a router unless it's an 802.11ac AEBS model. Prior to that model Time Machine was not reliable when used to backup to a drive connected to the AEBS even though it seems to work. You could consider replacing the Netgear Router with a Time Capsule.

Mount external Hard drive in Single user mode

Do any know how to mount an external hard drive in single user mode:
I've issue the following command:
/sbin/mount -uw /
mkdir /Volumes/ex1
/sbin/mount_hfs /dev/disk2s3 /Volumes/ex1
(I've checked my external hard drive using df -k showing the device is disk2s3)
Result:
Permission denied

I seem to remember the "Permission denied" or "Device busy" coming up in some situations but not others when attempting to mount drives at this early stage in "single user" mode...
It might be worth trying to run:<pre>sh /etc/rc</pre>This is actually present among the "Tiger" messages in "Single User" mode, as the procedure to continue booting but remaining in "single user" mode. Indeed, it seems to start up the usual "services" like starting disk arbitration (so you can eg. use 'diskutil' to repair permissions, or loading "NetInfo" so you don't need to work in '-raw' mode - in the past, people had posted complicated procedures for doing these things manually.
After running the 'rc' script, try creating your mount point and and running 'mount_hfs' as usual...

How do I mount my hard drive connected to my AirPort?

Hi there,
I installt the Airport Extreme and connected the Hard Drive (its formated not in FAT32 or neither NTFS but this Apple format) but It wouldn't show up in the AirPort Harddriveprogram or neither in the Finder.
Can you help me?
Do you need more Information?
Excuse my english!
stoertebecker

To see what volumes are mounted on your AEBS, start the Airport Utility and make sure your base station is selected in the left hand pane, then select Base Station / Manual setup from the screen toobar at the top.
After it has read the base station configuration, one of the options from the toolbar at the top of the window is Disks. Select this and it will list the names of the volumes available to you. Use these as per the instructions already given in this thread.

Can't mount external Hard drive and Can't change the ownership and permiss.

Hello everyone, got a problem and maybe someone here will know. Apple care can't help because this is due to an external piece. I have a hard drive external. I partitioned it into two hard drives. Long ago, I opened the information window for one of my partitioned drives. And changed the ownership and permission to "no access". I do this all the time to keep my files from being read if its not the administrator (me). Just recently I plugged in my hard drive (firewire and USB). Only one drive mounts on the desk top. I cannot see my other partitioned hard drive and I can' access it to change the ownership and permission with "apple key and I".. I can see a trace of the two partitioned hard drives when I use disc utility. But again it won't let me change the ownership so I can mount this again. How do I access my harddrive without refomatting? I have tried to mount this with both of my apple laptops..no luck yet. Please help, anyone.

Hi, Donnie. Welcome to the Discussions.
What part of "No Access" was unclear?
"No Access" means no access for anyone.
To fix this:
1. Launch Terminal, which resides in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder.
2. At the Terminal prompt, type the following command:
sudo chmod a+rwx "/Volumes/partition_name"
where: partition_name is the name of the affected partition.
3. Press Return.
4. Type your Admin password when prompted, then press Return.
5. At the Terminal prompt, type exit and press Return.
6. Quit (Command-Q) Terminal.
7. Relaunch Finder: Press and hold the Option key, click and hold mouse button 1 on the Finder icon in the Dock, select "Relaunch" from the Finder icon's contextual menu.
You should then see the volume, or be able to use Disk Utility to Unmount it, then Mount it and see it.
Reset the permissions for Group and Other on the partition as desired. Do not change the permissions for Owner.
If you want a volume / partition unmounted at startup, see:
• this tip Mac OS X Hints, or...
• this tip on the OSX86 Project forums.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

Cannot mount FAT32 Hard Drive in OX 10.5.8

I have a Mac mini running OSX 10.5.8
I also have a 2TB external hard drive, FAT32 that I use on various Macs and Windows 7 PCs
I use the Mac Mini to back up the external drive to a Drobo.
Today I went to back up the external drive and it would not mount. I don't know why. I've tried several different USB ports. I've run "Verify" and "Verify and Repair" and I get the message that it is verifying the drive, number of clusters, etc. but no errors that explain why it won't mount.
I've powered down and back up the Mac and still no avail.
The drive mounts fine on my Macbook running 10.8.2 and on my Windows 7 PCs but my backup software is on my Mac Mini and I need to figure out what's going on.
Anyone able to help?

Have you been able to resolve the issue with your Drobo? I'm having the same issue with my Drobo (which I've had a for a year) and suddenly, it's not being seen as a Drive.
The computer detects the disk, but it's not mounted.

Proper way of mounting external hard drive - fstab rules?

I have an external hard drive with all my music on it, and I want MPD to play this music. Now I was wondering how best to mount my external, such that MPD can actually access the music.
I was told to create an fstab entry with the UUID of my external to have it being mounted to a fixed spot. But this only works during boot up, correct?
What should I do, if I plug in the external after boot up? Is there a way to have it automounted to the same fixed spot as defined in fstab (maybe even using fstab)?

As iBertus mentioned, you can use the automount features of different desktops. XFCE includes the Thunar file manager which can also be used in other lightweight desktops.
If on the command line, pmount will let you mount the drive as a normal user, and without any fstab entries. This command will mount USB device sdb1 to /media/Stalafin.
pmount /dev/sdb1 Stalafin]
The cool thing about pmount is that if the drive/partition is encrypted with LUKS, you can throw other options at it and it will decrypt and mount at the same time.

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