Flash drive not automounting today

[MR ZenWiz]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 2:41 PM MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 2:18 PM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 at 21:00, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I use a flash drive every day for certain specific storage purposes.
> >
> > Certain very specific ones?
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> > https://i.pinimg.com/originals/26/9d/b1/269db17df65cf4c626083f36d1a8b838.png
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> It's backup for certain files i like to have portable between computers.
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> > > This morning, when I plugged in the drive, it did not automount.
> >
> > Fsck that sucker. Fsck it and fsck it now.
> >
> fsck didn't like it (not ext2).
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> dosfsck found a couple of errors, but I also mounted it in my Windows
> VM and it "fixed" the errors onthe drive - no effect on its
> automountability.
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> Also, that doesn't explain why NO flash drive mounts automatically.
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> I'll try the Windows solution and reboot...
>
Everything works fine after the reboot. All flash drives are
automounting perfectly.

I really hate that approach - I call it the Windows solution, but
that's a terrible misattribution. It's a well-known tradition that one
way to solve almost any electro-mechanical difficulty is the power
cycle solution. (Windows just took it to the illogical extreme, and
some people like it that way.)

Nuff said - I prefer bash to bashing Windows.

Cheers!

Mark