Mount issue, more thoughts

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:18:56 -0700, Jim Smith wrote:

>> Result of that is:
>> jim at JimsBook:~$ cat /etc/udev/udev.rules cat: /etc/udev/udev.rules: No
>> such file or directory jim at JimsBook:~$
>>
>> /etc/udev contains a subdirectory 'rules.d' which contains numerous
>> files, many of which I looked at but none of which seem to have my
>> device in mind.
>> lsusb does show the device on the first line: jim at JimsBook:~$ lsusb
>> Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0d49:7350 Maxtor Bus 005 Device 002: ID
>> 0ac8:c002 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Bus 005 Device 001: ID
>> 0000:0000
>> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 045e:00e1 Microsoft Corp. Wireless Laser Mouse
>> 6000 Reciever
>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>> jim at JimsBook:~$
>> Still mystified.
>
> Just for fun I took the USB drive to a Windows computer and mounted it
> then renamed the volume, removing the space in the name. Then replugged
> it into this computer running Hardy and still received the mount error
> message. Guess I need to know exactly which file the error is in. Should
> I think of trying to delete any references to /dev/sdb2? Would that
> cause the device to re-initialize on plugging it in?

If you can find the right references, you might as well correct them 
instead of deleting them.

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