On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:47:00 +0800, lina wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (...) > > >> > But before when the graphic driver works, I can find it in /media. > >> > >> !? > >> > >> I still don't see any relation between these two (VGA driver and /media > >> mount point) as you don't even need a DE nor a graphical driver to > >> mount your external disk. You can always do it manually by connecting > >> the external drive and then type "dmesg" to find out where the disk has > >> been detected, then mount it with "mount" by passing it the right > >> parameters for perms. > >> > >> > > sorry, don't know how to copy screen and use email in console, > > GPM (mouse on console) may help. > > > just typed something it popped up: > > > > [8038.643316] sd 2:0:0:0 [sdb] No Caching mode page present > > [8038.643403] sd 2:0:0:0 [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through > > Okay, then it's "/dev/sdb" but are you sure? To re-check run "fdisk -l" > as root. > > I used to find it in the /media, but now none. > > Yes, that's usually managed by DE automounter (nowadays policykit based). > > > I checked dmesg > > it showed USB Mass Storage support registered. but I don't know how to > > mount. > > Determine where is the disk/partition and then mount it -first attempt- > as usual, i.e. (do not copy/paste, adjust it to your needs): > > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt > Thanks. it works. just a little question here, I only have 2 partitions in hard drive, why there are 6 sdb which ranges from sdb1 to sdb6. I even don't know which two exactly are the true one, so tried one by one. are there some way to identify each? sdb. > > P.S. May I ask why you cannot access your DE as usual? :-? > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > 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/pan.2011.10.02.15.05...@gmail.com > > -- Best Regards, lina
