How to mount USB volume or network share to Linux live CDs (e.g. Gparted LiveCD)?

[evilsatan]

After a bit of help here, I have done this before but can't remember how and remember it took a lot of searching. I spent about an hour last night trawling google to find the answer but it didn't happen.

I am using the Gparted LiveCD to recover some files from a failing HDD. The HDD is properly recognised, I am able to find the directories I wish to backup but I am unable to mount a target drive. I am looking for instructions on how to mount an external USB drive or a network share so during the recovery process I can select the folder. I am using Testdisk for the recovery process.

Once I have this part of info I will try to write a guide for data recovery on here. Testdisk and Photorec (in my experience) are far more powerful and successful than any other app such as Getdataback.

Cheers

[tombott]

An external USB should just automount, what version of Gparted Live CD are you using?
Have you tried PartedMagic

[evilsatan]

I have managed to do it now by the looks of it, by following the same guide as last night so must have missed a keystroke :s

I am using the latest Gparted because PartedMagic wouldn't run from my multi-boot USB for love nor money but would from CD, but on CD the version of Testdisk was missing the list option to copy specific directories and files.

I used this to mount the USB:
http://gparted.org/display-doc.php?n...sb-flash-drive

Not sure how to mount a network share even though I have done it before.

[tombott]

you need to start the network first under Gparted Live.
I'll download the latest image, have a play and let you know.

[evilsatan]

I have now tested it and the method I used for USB is working, problem is it is a slow tx rate and there is no sign on how far the backup has got and even if it has crashed or not so a network share would be better for throughput and being able to monitor the files.

I had already tried the network config and also tried mounting /eth0/servername/sharename but that failed. I am clueless with linux commands but will search for generic commands such as 'mount network share using linux terminal' rather than 'mount network share in testdisk/Gparted'.

[tombott]

Ok got it working my end.

Boot Gparted Live CD, started networking.
Open terminal and create a mount point:

sudo mkdir /mnt/backup

Then mount the network share:

sudo mount //ipaddress/share-name /mnt/backup

When prompted for password just press Return as it should be blank.

Now go into file manager and you should see the mounted network share under /mnt/backup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwL-R...ature=youtu.be

[evilsatan]

Fantastic, thanks mate, it is working fine in a new temp share I have created with guest access.

When doing the same to mount a protected share what do I add? I tried //usernameassword@servername/sharename and I also tried adding -o username=myusername,password=mypassword but both failed.

I will write up a newbs guide when I get a minute for data recovery.

[evilsatan]

In the above post I meant serverIP rather than servername. The instructions you sent me were what I had been trying but I had used server hostname rather than IP!!

[tombott]

You should just be able to pass through the user and password at the end of the mount command, so something like this:


sudo mount //ipaddress/share-name /mnt/backup user=userid,pass=password1234

[evilsatan]

I had used the labels username and password so will shorten and report back.

Cheers mate!

[tombott]

I had used the labels username and password so will shorten and report back.

Cheers mate!

I've not tested it myself under Gparted, but am sure that's commands you need.

[evilsatan]

Given it a try mate and I receive the usage instructions when I enter that line as if my syntax is wrong :s I tried to use the screenshot facility but it is outputting 0kb jpegs which cannot be opened.

[evilsatan]

Got it!

sudo mount -o username=USER,password=PASS //ServerIP/Share /mnt/MOUNTPOINT

Thanks for your help mate

[steve10574]

So for mounting a network drive share in mint14 would this be the same? (why is this sooooo tricky when windows make it piss easy lol)

[evilsatan]

It should be the same in most Linux flavours. It is frustrating but it isn't an OS like windows and it is free, I would have thought an end user OS such as Ubuntu would have an option to mount but I'm not sure.