Thread: "can't find [HDD] in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"

was fooling around gparted , clonezilla

can not mount 1 of drives. bios sees fine. passes tests on disk manufacturer's live diagnostic cd. if ls /dev/sd* shows /dev/sdb when try mount says "can't find /dev/sdb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"

??

two things:
1) can't mount harddrive (except in rare cases, drive 1 big partition)

2) need specify mount point if you're using mount command

e.g.

code:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

now, if don't have partitions (e.g. sdb1, sdb2, sdb5, etc) on drive, you'll need make 1 (unless drive 1 of rare cases mentioned above).

hpefully points in right direction , can sort self out there, if you're still struggling understand why can't mount it, post output of:

code:

sudo parted -l

here.

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