Mount is giving me trouble

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Bit of a dumb linux question, I can’t see to mount my harddrive to a location outside of the /mnt directory:

Running

$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /var/www/drive1/

Places nothing in the /var/www/drive1 directory.

/var/www/drive1 $ ls

Running lsblk shows the drive is mounted, but nothing can be found in that folder:

$ lsblk

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0 298.1G  0 disk
└─sda1        8:1    0 298.1G  0 part /var/www/drive1
mmcblk0     179:0    0  29.8G  0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0   2.4G  0 part
├─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0     1K  0 part
├─mmcblk0p5 179:5    0    32M  0 part
├─mmcblk0p6 179:6    0   256M  0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p7 179:7    0  27.2G  0 part /

Am I missing something here? This works fine for the /mnt directory.

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I don’t think that glitch even supports drive mounting.

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This isn’t on Glitch, this is on my own machine.

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Yeah, keywords:

  • my harddrive: Hard drives are physical
  • sudo mount: Sudo isn’t supported on Glitch
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i think there’s something wrong with your computer?is it running any other software and/or programming languages?If not it either needs an update or restart

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And if that doesn’t work i recommend maybe getting a new laptop/computer

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Err, this is a question about linux and doesn’t have anything to do with the quality of my computer.

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i understand that,but i’m also saying if it isn’t even running something similar to mount then either your Linux(i think) doesn’t support it anymore

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I’ve been reading this thread and this has nothing to do with the OS version. OP, has mount worked in folders other than /var/?

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Can you show what stat . in the mounted dir outputs under ‘Device’ and what ls -l /dev/sda1 outputs for device major and minor numbers? They should match up, modulo any hex/decimal conversions.

edit: or stat /dev/sda1 in the ‘Device type’ field. just realized that this has it conveniently already in hex

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Odd, it seemed to work. All good now, thanks. No idea what went wrong, I viewed the directory as superuser and it appeared, then viewed as non super user and its still there. A tech issue I probably can’t explain.

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