On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:41:47 -0500, ntrfug wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:59:42 -0500 > ntrfug <ntr...@saucysailor.org> wrote: > >> For years I have been able to use external hard drives and thumb drives >> on my systems, but not since I installed Wheezy. >> > ... >> >> The problem is not limited to devices with NTFS file systems; I can't >> mount ext2 or ReiserFS devices either. > > I backup my system by exchanging the CD/DVD device for a second hard > drive, partitioned the same as my system hard drive. > > I thought I would be organized, and created entries in /etc/fstab for > each of those second-hard-drive partitions; the first was NTFS. I, umm, > don't back up every day ;) and I had forgotted about those entries. > > Whenever I inserted any removable device, the system saw it as > /dev/sdb1, looked in fstab, and tried to mount the device as NTFS. > > When I commented out the offending lines in fstab I was able to mount > removable devices normally.
That's why we have to use UUID instead >:-) > Camaleón, the log excerpt was posted to the thread in my Sun, 1 Apr 2012 > 08:15:21 -0500 reply to Andrei. Thanks. But if you mean this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/04/msg00024.html I see no mention there to the afore mentioned NTFS-3G warning at all ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jlf4h9$8qv$9...@dough.gmane.org
