Hi Michael, On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 01:58 +0100, Michael Wood wrote: > I wouldn't bother with faffing around with dmesg output right yet. >
In the chain of problem diagnosis it makes sense to use dmesg first because this is the first place the system reports the discovery of the device. Running dmesg takes no more or less time than fdisk, and could be more reliable - see below. > It's worth checking the output of the command fdisk -l (not run as sudo) > after you have plugged in the device. > If there is output then you will have all the info you need to mount it. > Not quite correct. There will always be output if you have any fixed disks, you will just get _more_ output once you have a USB disk attached. > if you get something like that you can manually mount it using `pmount > /dev/xxxx` > pmount isn't the way we mount disks anymore AIUI. We use gnome-volume-manager. Cheers, Al.
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