On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote:
<much silliness deleted>
> Ok from all this, I wonder if the drive is corrupt. It is connected. Why
> can't
> I manually mount it?
Because you're trying to mount the block device, rather than a partition on
it. Example:
rei $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdf
Disk /dev/sdf: 519 MB, 519569408 bytes
129 heads, 32 sectors/track, 245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4128 * 512 = 2113536 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdf1 1 246 507376 4 FAT16 <32M
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(249, 128, 32) logical=(245, 106, 32)
rei $ mount | grep sdf
/dev/sdf1 on /mnt/usbstick type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=mwilson)
> Why doesn't something try to automount it for me?
What would this "something" be? Have you installed something that would do
that for you? Are you using a recent Gnome or KDE that would do that by
default? No, I don't know in what version Gnome started doing that... I
don't use Gnome. Nor KDE, for that matter.
IMHO automount is an incredibly broken behavior. Gnome users swear that
it's desirable, though. Your mileage may vary.
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