Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 19 September 2010 11:23:20 John Lindsay wrote:
> Here is the result of 'df
> -lh'.
>
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda1              71G   58G  9.8G  86% /
[snip]
> > /dev/sda1             1.9T  123M  1.9T   1% /mnt

Curiouser and curiouser....

Now we have one partition on two mount points. 

Out of interest (I am no expert, so use with all possible health warnings) try 
mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt in your fstab, ratherthan on /.  If that works, 
you can create a mount point for /dev/sda1 and use that in your fstab, 
freeing /mnt for more general use.

One usually has to edit /etc/fstab as root.

The fact that the filesystem is ntfs may have a bearing.  I know nothing about 
ntfs since I have never used it.

HTH
Lisi