Automount of USB drives not working
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 21:34:21 UTC 2012
On 02/24/2012 02:16 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
Mine used to do that, until I added a "notification" applet to my panel.
Somehow I managed to remove it, dinking around with my panel bar, and I
got no notifications or automount behavior until I re-installed it.
Using 11.10 Xubuntu. Ah ...it's called "Mount Devices". and puts a
little hard drive looking icon on the panel.
Huh, just noticed that adding "Indicator Plugin" adds a "Network
Indicator Plugin", which is not a "system notification" in my mind.
Huh... the icon should have an "i" on it, from the installer, but I keep
getting two up-down arrows. Gonna have to check on that one. Ric
Ric
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