After Hardy upgrade: invalid mount options with usb flash drive

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Sep 1 17:36:47 UTC 2008


Bill Moseley wrote:

> On one of my desktop machines I just upgraded finally to Hardy and
> now when I plug in my flash drive (usb memory card) from my camera I
> get an alert pop-up that says only:
> 
>     Cannot mount volume.
> 
>     Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume.
> 
> Oddly, I have a laptop running Hardy that mounts the same device
> without any complaints.
> 
> I *can* mount the flash drive manually with
> 
>     sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /media/disk
 
I can't see the problem - what happens if you try:
$ pmount /dev/sdc1 /media/disk

(no sudo - this _should_ do the same thing as the automounting - you might
get a better message)
-- 
derek





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