USB Flash storage

[Erianor]

Le vendredi 08 octobre 2004 à 09:18 +0200, Martin Pitt a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> James McCormick [2004-10-07 21:28 -0500]:
> > I'm trying to get a USB flash device set up, and while dmesg says that 
> > it detects the device, I don't know where I need to direct the mount point.
> > 
> > Is there any way to tell where the mount point should go in /etc/fstab?
> 
> It is actually supposed to be mounted fully automagically, without
> modifying fstab and such. If it does not work, can you please do the
> following immediately after you plugged in the device:
> 
>   dmesg > dmesg.txt
> 
>   lshal > lshal.txt
> 
>   pidof gnome-volume-manager
> 
>   pidof gnome-volume-manager || echo GVM has died!
>   # (please tell me whether "GVM has died) is printed out)
> 
> Also, even if it does not work automatically, can you please try the
> following
> 
>   pmount /dev/sda1
> 
> This should mount your stick (assuming that you do not have other SCSI
> devices; if you have, it's sdb1 or sdc1) to /media/sda1 and an icon
> and a Nautilus window should pop up.
> 
> Please do not fiddle with fstab for these things, for removable
> devices this is not robust anyway.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Martin

Hi,

I had the same problem with four USB flash devices (iomega, sony and no
names). My problem is not ubuntu specific. I can mount them manually but
not using gnome-volume-manager.
It seems that some preformated devices had bad partition tables, you
can't use 'cfdisk' on them as it ends up with an error. But using
'fdisk' i have deleted all partitions and created new ones. After a mkfs
my devices are ready to use automatically and 'cfdisk' can be use on
them without screeming.

I hope you can understand my poor english...