But there I got a little scared as I've not done this before. The external hard drive is brand new and was brought today. And I don't have the possibility to test it with Windows or Mac as I'm using Linux only on my machines. View 6 Replies View Related ...
I'm trying to get some data off of an external harddrive. I get a few errors:Unable to mountError mounting: mount: /dev/sdb1: can't read superblock.I then tried to run a read disk benchmark on disk utility and that seemed okay.I then tried Code: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l ...
I think I have to completely reformat the entire external hard drive to repair this, but I want to make sure. Because it's going to be a major hassle backing it all up to another external (having to get one first) and then figuring out how to make the f...
On linux I use "locate" to find anything via command line. I see that locate is installed on my Mac but invoking it does not always find what I am looking for I thought that maybe I need to update the database but $ sudo slocate -u gives me a command not found er...