removable Media not mounted

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:56:24PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
>Sarangan Thuraisingham / துரைசிங்கம் சாரங்கன் schrieb am 11.12.2005 01:26:
>
>> First of all, can you mount the drive through shell.
>>   sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk
>> 
>> If you can, are you using GNOME or some other WM? If the above line
>> worked you might try adding it to /etc/fstab like this
>>   /dev/sda1  /media/usbdisk  vfat  defaults,user  0  0
>> 
>> PS: Change the above commands to suit your system.
>> 
>
>Thanks for your answer.
>
>I use Gnome and it worked all the time since i use Ubuntu (Warthy).
>But suddenly it stopped working.
>If i mount it "by Hand" it works, no prob - but it should be automated,
>as it was. And create an icon on the desktop, what not does happen.
>I´ve installed this "autofs" - no change.
>
>any othe ideas?

The automounting in GNOME is performed by gnome-volume-manager, pmount,
and hal. (autofs has nothing to do with it.)

Make sure all three are installed properly. Let us know if it still
doesn't work.

/M

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