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On 27/09/12 07:36, Martin Gautier wrote:
I am still having problems. Got it to recognise Exfat. Then with some difficulty and length of time I have managed to copy the contents (or at least any useful or wanted files) to on 2 internal hard discs, each one had to be booted up separately to accept exfat, but it then seemed quite easy to re format the drive through disc utility BUT it says error as the drive is in "use". It will not demount without it disappearing and immediately remounting - or unplugging it and again sying it is in "use". So I then tried to do it through a terminal and fdisk. I eventually get through to finding the right name for the disc (disk) and summoning fdisk. Now the message "fdisk: unable to open /dev/sdc1: Permission denied". I suspect because it is in use but I don't know. I have looked all over the internet via google and it is not a great deal of help. One site said that when I do fdisk -h the disk should no longer appear but I don't know how to remove it from the list so that I can format it.On 26/09/12 19:33, Peter M Le Mare wrote:On 26/09/12 17:16, bad apple wrote:Thanks Martin and bad apple. All this seems reasonable and will be a great help. One last (I hope) request; is it possible to re-save these in a normal mp3 and mp4 (a few are in VOB) without the exFAT so that it can be read by anything. There is plenty of room on the hdd so I could then delete those in the exFAT. Maybe this exFAT is some sort of format on the whole disk but if I access it maybe I can use fdisk or a partition tool. Again I also used fdisk long ago: one had to format your own disc in those days - they came unformatted. I am assuming from what you say that Linux contains fdisk facility.On 26/09/12 14:32, Peter M Le Mare wrote:Typical, I was even going to include the ex-fat bit as well just in caseThis is what I got- wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sd14:0:0:0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program) In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so I am not sure I understand this. I am not sure I put the sdx1 number correctly as my number is a lot different to your example. I put sd14:0:0:0 the number after the entry. How do I enter /sbin/mount.?buffalo? helper program? Do I put sudo or something first? do actually write helper programme? what is syslog how do write the dmesg | ?tail? or so? A long time ago I used to use DOS before windows. I managed that OK? Sorry to sound so stupid.but thought I should try and keep my post length down... As Martin has said, you need ex-fat support: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat exfat-utils And then reboot. At this point, your system understands exfat and your buffalo should just automount itself. If not, then the mount command should take the form of something like: "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/buffalo"The critical bit is the "sdb1", which depending on your system, could be"sdc1", "sdd1", etc. As you can hopefully see, the only variable is the third letter which increments by one alphabetically depending on how many disks you have in your system (and usb thumb drives, SD cards, etc- any form of storage unit counts). So your first hard drive (presumablyyour boot and OS drive) is going to be sda, your second drive is sdb, your third sdc, and so on. If you type "sudo fdisk -l" your system will spit out a summary of your attached drives. On mine: Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes /dev/sda1 2048 3907028991 1953513472 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes /dev/sdb1 * 2048 217667583 108832768 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 217669630 234440703 8385537 5 Extended/dev/sdb5 217669632 234440703 8385536 82 Linux swap / SolarisDisk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes /dev/sdc1 1 409639 204819+ ee GPT /dev/sdc2 * 409640 297245583 148417972 af HFS / HFS+ /dev/sdc3 297507728 600242103 151367188 af HFS / HFS+ /dev/sdc4 600504248 958175855 178835804 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes /dev/sdd1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdd2 206848 245762047 122777600 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdd3 245762048 976773119 365505536 83 LinuxAs you can see, I have a lot of disks (windows/linux/mac) - precisely 4,as the last one is sdd. You'll *probably* have two disks listed: yourmain hard drive and the buffalo. Your hard drive will be /dev/sda(1,2,3)and your buffalo, if it's the second disk in your machine, is going to be /dev/sdb1. Make sense? Your mount command, if you have to do it manually, is very likely to be: "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/buffalo" The warning message you got was completely normal (your OS is missing exfat drivers) and it's advising you to read your system logs - just type "dmesg" to do this, you don't need to pipe it through tail.A long time ago I used to use DOS before windows. I managed that OK?Sorry to sound so stupid. Didn't we all! You don't sound stupid at all my friend, we can't all be system administrators or programmer gurus. To be honest, you shouldn't even need to know this: ideally, a good operating system should be able to detect your drive, politely and helpfully tell you that you are missing a filesystem driver and then download and install it for you. Sadly, even linux doesn't do this currently. Anyway, good luck - just installing the exfat drivers should sort youout completely and it's unlikely you'll need to mess with the cmd promptagain. RegardsThanks for kind words. I mostly understand hardware but all software seems to send me around the bend.You'll want to reformat the drive as FAT32 but if you do that, the contents of the drive will be destroyed.You need to copy the drive contents onto your main hard drive, launch "Disk Utility" from within Ubuntu, select the exFat drive and click on format. Once Drive Utility has finished, you can copy the original contents of the drive back.Martin
Lastly the fdisk should clean it but will it then be in a format that will take the msp3 and 4's, that are transferred to it that can be accessed by all? Hope you can help again.
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