On Monday 26 September 2011 09:59:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Jochen Spieker wrote, on 09/26/11 10:25: > > Lisi: > >> Tux:/home/lisi# mount dev/sdc1 /media/Distros > >> mount: special device dev/sdc1 does not exist > > > > Is this literally copy-pasted? -Then you are simply missing a / at the > > beginning of /dev/sdc1. > > > > J. > > Yes, I concur with that. When inserting a USB drive with older kernels, > there is a certain waiting time (5 s?) before the device gets registered. > Though your first call of the mount command was correct, the device wasn't > recognized yet. Your second mount command simply had a typo.
Thanks, both of you. Sadly my appalling typing is matched only by my poor proof-reading. ;-( My I also found that fstab had lost a couple of entries, of which that disk was one. Probably the result of that mess I made the other day from which you lot kindly rescued me. Anyhow, for whatever reason, it now works. Even if only temporarily. \o/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109261048.36589.lisi.re...@gmail.com
