RE: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-10 Thread Ken Walker
; -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John W. M. > Stevens > Sent: 07 February 2006 7:11pm > To: Rob Blomquist > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting > > > On

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-07 Thread John W. M. Stevens
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:45:58PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Monday 06 February 2006 9:58 am, Andrew Sackville-West so eloquently > stated: > > > Now, I am not sure which of these would be used for a flash drive, but I > > can tell that a few won't be > > look in /etc/udev/rules.d/050

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:45:58 -0800 Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 06 February 2006 9:58 am, Andrew Sackville-West so eloquently > stated: > > > Now, I am not sure which of these would be used for a flash drive, but I > > can tell that a few won't be > > look in /etc/ude

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 08:45:58PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > Nothing here leads me to believe this is how the automounting happens. I also > looked at my Ubuntu udev scripts and rules and saw nothing there. No one told you that this was how the device got mounted. These are the udev rules

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 06 February 2006 9:58 am, Andrew Sackville-West so eloquently stated: > Now, I am not sure which of these would be used for a flash drive, but I > can tell that a few won't be look in /etc/udev/rules.d/050_hal* and see what that says. That is the rule that creates sd* devices. OK

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 05 February 2006 9:36 pm, Marc Shapiro so eloquently stated: Brendan wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 18:13, Marc Wilson wrote: >>IMHO automount is an incredibly broken behavior. Gnome users swear that >>it's desirable, though. Your mileage may vary. > > Why do you think that? >with

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:06:19 -0800 Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 7:50 pm, Andrew Sackville-West so eloquently > stated: > On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:42:09 -0700 > > > > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > /dev/sdb1 *

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-06 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:47:45PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I have been quite confused with the changes to USB that the 2.6 kernel gives. What changes are those? The 2.6 kernel doesn't make any significant changes to the presentation of USB in this area. What you're more likely seeing is pe

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-06 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 09:06:19PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 7:50 pm, Andrew Sackville-West so eloquently > stated: > > Maybe because the error message from mount is correct? That > > "special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist?" > > >do you have udev rules to create

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] I have a system with a fresh Debian install with KDE. It wants to automount things. I'm hoping I can correct this behaviour. Here are the problems that I am having: Data CDs will automount, but sometimes take so long to do so that I click on the icon again. I then

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Brendan wrote: On Sunday 05 February 2006 18:13, Marc Wilson wrote: IMHO automount is an incredibly broken behavior. Gnome users swear that it's desirable, though. Your mileage may vary. Why do you think that? I have a system with a fresh Debian install with KDE. It wants to automount

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-05 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 05 February 2006 7:50 pm, Andrew Sackville-West so eloquently stated: On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:42:09 -0700 > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sdb1 * 1 952 2436966 FAT16 > > > > Ah, so it is vfat on sdb1! no sweat! > >

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-05 Thread Brendan
On Sunday 05 February 2006 18:13, Marc Wilson wrote: > IMHO automount is an incredibly broken behavior. Gnome users swear that > it's desirable, though. Your mileage may vary. Why do you think that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:42:09 -0700 "John W. M. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 17:47 -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > On Sunday 05 February 2006 3:13 pm, Marc Wilson so eloquently stated: > > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-05 Thread John W. M. Stevens
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 17:47 -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 3:13 pm, Marc Wilson so eloquently stated: > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > > > > > > > Ok from all this, I wonder if the drive is corrupt. It is connected. Why > > > can't

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-05 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 05 February 2006 3:13 pm, Marc Wilson so eloquently stated: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > > > Ok from all this, I wonder if the drive is corrupt. It is connected. Why > > can't I manually mount it? > > Because you're trying to mount the block devi

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:13:46 -0800 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > > > Ok from all this, I wonder if the drive is corrupt. It is connected. Why > > can't > > I manually mount it? > > Because you're trying to mount t

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > Ok from all this, I wonder if the drive is corrupt. It is connected. Why > can't > I manually mount it? Because you're trying to mount the block device, rather than a partition on it. Example: rei $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdf

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 13:30:01 -0800 Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked this earlier, and several asked for more information about what is > going or not going on on my system. I am trying to figure out if something is > missing, or if something needs manual configuration on my syst