usb stick doesn't mount

Eduard Goiu eduard at linuxlabs.com
Fri Oct 3 20:08:43 UTC 2008


Robert Holtzman wrote:
> After automounting for months suddenly it refuses to mount when inserted. 
> The hard drive light flashes briefly as it always has but nothing further 
> happens. It doesn't appear to be a hardware problem because it automounts 
> in Fedora and Debian which I also have installed.
>
> Is there a manual method to mount it? There is nothing in mtab about 
> it that the system can read so I'm at a loss.
>
> Forums, list archives, and search engines have turned nothing useful. Any 
> help on how to proceed appreciated. Thanks.
>
>   
Check please the dmesg . If you see it there, you can mount it manually,
"mount /dev/"xxx" /mnt/" , or wherever you want.




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