On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 06:29:25PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Where to find directions for mounting devices with amd64 debian testing kernel > 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp? Of course if different from 32 testing.
It is exactly the same as on i386. That is kind of the point of debian. Every architecture should be as similar as possible. > I am asking that because I inserted a card reader writer (with card inside) > into USB and got it recognized without doing anything else. That would be udev doing its job. > I was unused at that, so that unfortunately I did not pay attention enough to > the screen. Now, trying to mount (as root) that device on a newly created > partition /mnt/flash (as I am used to do with debian 32 testing) I > got "already mounted or busy" You can always do: cat /proc/partitions Or dmesg |grep sd And see which scsi device the usb device is. > ps -eaf > shows, inter alia, > root 7380 19 0 [the time] ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_6] > root 7381 19 0 [the same time] ? 00:00:00 [usb-storage] > > Unable to trace where the device is mounted - if it reallyis, which frankly i > can not believe . I am not used to shutdown machines with devices mounted. > Under /dev a lot of sda.. sdb.. etc etc Under fstab all md for my parttions > hda for cdrom and fd0 for floppy. It likely is NOT mounted. It is just detected and the device exists. You can mount it of course. gnome-volume-manager and the like on the other hand might mount it automatically for you. I haven't tried that. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

