Unable to access the harddisk after the installation of Ubuntu.
How can I access this without formatting it.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
exec > /tmp/sda-debug.log 2>&1 # The last "word" of this line is 4 chars - two, greater than, ampersand and one
# strict mode
set -euxo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'
TARGET="/tmp/myprecious"
umount /dev/sda4 || true
mkdir -p "$TARGET"
mount /dev/sda4 "$TARGET"
ls -la "$TARGET" # attempt read
touch "$TARGET"/testfile # attempt write
rm "$TARGET"/testfile
umount "$TARGET"
rmdir "$TARGET"
Save this to a file somewhere, let's call it sda-debug.sh
Make the script executable: chmod +x sda-debug.sh
Run it as root: sudo ./sda-debug.sh
Paste the content of /tmp/sda-debug.log here
EDIT: changed the script to log everything to a file for easier copy-past-ability.
This script will unmount the problematic drive and try to mount it to another place /tmp/myprecious, a temporary place.
Then, as it says, will attempt to read and then write to the drive.
Finally, it removes the file it wrote to test writeability, unmounts the drive again and removes the temporary mount place.
The scripts needs root access to mount and unmount and possibly to write and read.
Please don't run a script you found on the internet with root access without knowing what it does.
This is some very good advice, OP!
Make this a gist and post a link. Will solve all formatting errors.
I would remove the formatting of the script. For me that would never run as a bash script as it's filled with markup. Not sure if it shows up nicely for you or not so figured I'd let.you know it may not be displaying for others at least.
If you follow the link to the original post, it displays correctly. For some reason, Lemmy sends HTML for code blocks. kbin rightly escapes it on their end for security.
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Also, if you're dual booting, Disable Fast Start in Windows! That'll prevent drives from being mounted on Linux since Windows never technically "shutsdown" when Fast Boot is enabled.
What file system is in this partition? Can you verify you have the required drivers (eg. for ntfs3)?
fsck?
Yeah, start here. Also, there might be useful info in dmesg.
@Harryh0udini@linux please try to explain better. How did you try to access your hard drive? What happened when you tried it?
sda-debug.sh
chmod +x sda-debug.sh
sudo ./sda-debug.sh
/tmp/sda-debug.log
hereEDIT: changed the script to log everything to a file for easier copy-past-ability.
This script will unmount the problematic drive and try to mount it to another place
/tmp/myprecious
, a temporary place. Then, as it says, will attempt to read and then write to the drive. Finally, it removes the file it wrote to test writeability, unmounts the drive again and removes the temporary mount place. The scripts needs root access to mount and unmount and possibly to write and read.Please don't run a script you found on the internet with root access without knowing what it does.
This is some very good advice, OP!
Make this a gist and post a link. Will solve all formatting errors.
I would remove the formatting of the script. For me that would never run as a bash script as it's filled with markup. Not sure if it shows up nicely for you or not so figured I'd let.you know it may not be displaying for others at least.
If you follow the link to the original post, it displays correctly. For some reason, Lemmy sends HTML for code blocks. kbin rightly escapes it on their end for security.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/649
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/724
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3648
Ampersand was escaped in web UI, editted to reflect that. Everything else is displayed fine.
Code link for anyone that wants it.