Can't enable USB Drive after Feisty upgrade

[bturrie]

I have a WD Passport USB drive that worked fine before I upgraded from Edgy to Feisty. It still works okay on a Windows machine but I don't like Windows. Unfortunately, since the upgrade, when I plug it into a USB port on my Feisty system it tries to open and fails.

When I look at the drive in System Settings, it shows as a Disabled Ext3 drive (it's really FAT32). When I try to enable it, it says it has a bad Superblock (probably because the filesystem is wrong). When I tried to modify the filesystem in System Settings (Administrator Mode) Fat32 is not one of the possible choices. Am I missing a package? Anybody have any suggestions?

[penguin.ch]

Re: Can't enable USB Drive after Feisty upgrade

Could you please, with the usb drive plugged in, issue the K/console command sudo fdisk -l ("minus ell") and post your system's feedback to that - as well as the contents of /etc/fstab ...?

[bturrie]

Re: Can't enable USB Drive after Feisty upgrade

Heres the results of the fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13999 112446936 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14000 14593 4771305 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 14000 14593 4771273+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 29650 238163593+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 29651 30401 6032407+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 29651 30401 6032376 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7294 58589023+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hdb1
UUID=42e486c4-f9d4-4e38-871b-1d292a0f06e3 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/hdb5
UUID=0629836e-d292-471d-930c-a5e25ea50e5b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 auto users,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 auto users,atime,auto,ro,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/WD\040Passport ext3 users,atime,auto,rw,nodev,exec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /media/hdb auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

my other usbdrive (which is working okay) does not appear here.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Can't enable USB Drive after Feisty upgrade

/dev/sda1 /media/WD\040Passport ext3 users,atime,auto,rw,nodev,exec,nosuid 0 0

Create an appropriate mount point, e.g. by

sudo mkdir /media/sda1
sudo chmod 777 /media/sda1

- then change the quoted "fstab entry" to

/dev/sda1  /media/sda1  vfat  users,auto,rw,umask=000  0 0