USB ext3 drive seen by OS but can't mount it

[collins]

I'm running Fedora 19 and Amahi 7.

I have a 1TB external USB drive that I want to use with my server. My ultimate goal is to run my ownCloud install entirely off of that external hard drive.

Originally, it was formatted as NTFS. I would plug it into the HDA, it would be recognized, then I would run the HDA-diskmount and everything was great.

However, trying to get ownCloud running on it proved to be problematic. I was directed by some great people on the IRC channel to reformat the drive as ext3 to simplify things. I did that.

Now when I plug my drive into the HDA, it is detected by the OS. I know because it is listed when run this command list command (below), the drive shows up correctly.

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ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/

But when I run HDA-diskmount, it doesn't mount the drive. It doesn't see that the drive is connected so it doesn't even try to mount it. I don't get an error message or anything. It just says that it finished, with no trace of the external ext3 drive mentioned.

Again, this is a clean, freshly formatted ext3 drive. I'm not sure how to proceed.

[bigfoot65]

I would pretend it's not formatted and try following the guidance for adding a new hard drive in the wiki. See if you have the same result.

[collins]

So essentially, start from scratch by totally reformatting the drive in ext3 again?

That's quite a time-intensive process and I don't see how a freshly formatted drive being reformatted will change anything.

If you think that's the best option, I can go that route.

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[bigfoot65]

Should not take that long to format.

My main point was to ensure you had the partition set correctly and formated how the wiki stated. If you feel it's already there, then skip it.