Automounting flash drives

[Braden McDaniel]

I have a flash drive that came formatted as FAT16. In this original
configuration, FC6 has no problem automounting it. However, if I reformat
the drive using Gparted (to ext2, FAT32, or even FAT16), it no longer
automounts.

What magic is going on here?

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[Mikkel]

Braden McDaniel wrote:
>  I have a flash drive that came formatted as FAT16. In this original
>  configuration, FC6 has no problem automounting it. However, if I reformat
>  the drive using Gparted (to ext2, FAT32, or even FAT16), it no longer
>  automounts.
>  
>  What magic is going on here?
>   
Did you format the entire drive (/dev/sda) or the first partition
(/dev/sda1)? If you formatted the entire drive, then it will have
problems. You may also have to give the partition a label before it
will auto-mount. (I thought they fixed that in one of the updates,
but I could be wrong.) Unlabeled media should still get mounted in
/media, with a generic name...

(It is late, and I don't remember if gparted will make a file system
without a partition...)

Mikkel
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[Braden McDaniel]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:58:57 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

>  You may also have to give the partition a label before it will
>  auto-mount. 
That was it. Thank you.

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