I've been trying to fix this all day, I can't get my External HD (Via USB) working with Linux Debian.

I messed about with fstab all day and yet I never got it working. So could someone who is experienced with Linux (Debian in particular) help me please.

My Specs (of Linux):

KDE version: 3.3.2
machine:i686
release:2.6.11

Below is the coding of my fstab file, if anyone can view it and tell me if something is wrong or what to add (I've tried adding before but I deleted the code I added as it didn't work) then that would be great.

code:

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# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
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# filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass
/dev/hda3  /  ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1

proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
/dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
usbfs  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs  devmode=0666  0  0
sysfs  /sys  sysfs  defaults  0  0
tmpfs  /dev/shm  tmpfs defaults  0  0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/dvd /dvd  iso9660  defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto  0  0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0

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Under Linux, USB devices are mounted as SCSI devices, so you'll need to add a mapping from /dev/sda0 to wherever you wish to mount the external HDD e.g. /mnt/external, obviously with the flags needed to tell Linux the filesystem.

Example:
/dev/sda0 /mnt/external vfat auto,users,exec

You can also use noexec to not run stuff, and noauto to not mount on boot.

I used to run Linux, and had (still have) an external HDD. Can't remember if Fedora set it up for me, or if I did it manually: I just know what I saw in my fstab.

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