Automount of USB drives not working
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Fri Feb 24 19:16:21 UTC 2012
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:56:13AM +0800, Zind wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Chris Green <[1]cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> I've just discovered that automounting of USB drives isn't working on my
> xubuntu 11.10 system.
>
> I can see the device with lsusb:-
>
> A A Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0951:1607 Kingston Technology DataTraveler
> 100
>
> but no sign of it automounting.
>
> The "Mount removable drives when hot-plugged" setting is ticked and it
> always used to work (though I'm not absolutely sure it has worked
> since A I upgraded to 11.10).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Well,
> IMO, it may be a matter of your USB drive.
> Linux may not recognize some kinds of file system format, for example, if
> you USB drive is formatted to be used as a Windows PE boot disc.
> Does your USB drive work properly before the upgrade? Do you change the
> file system format of your USB drive?
It's a drive that works in other Linux boxes, not to mention that I
tried several USB (and other) flash drives, *none* of them automounted.
> Myabe you can try your USB drive on another Linux OS machine and see
> whether your USB drive can be mounted automatically.
>
Yes, did that too, and it worked.
--
Chris Green
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