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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