Procedure on mounting USB/hotplug devices

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 August 2007 12:23, Tim wrote:
>> or you can use gnome-mount to get it work out the details.
> 
> Well, I tried something like
> 
> $ gnome-mount --device /dev/sdb
> 
> and the first thing it did was to complain that there is no X running (!!), 
> than it falls back to text-mode, complains that it cannot find any partitions 
> on /dev/sdb, and fails. It does not detect the filesystem, it does not read 
> off the label, it does not create a mount point.
> 
> But I think that the fault is in hal not providing appropriate info for it, 
> since "lshal | grep sdb" returns nothing. Hal does not seem to have detected 
> the flash memory, so gnome-mount knows nothing about it.
> 
That is because the file system is probably on /dev/sdb1, and not
/dev/sdb. You have to use the same device with gnome-mount as you
would with mount. You wouldn't try mount /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp, would
you? (The exception is when the entire device is one file system,
with out a partition table - like floppy drives.) Gnome-mount will
produce an error message when it can not connect to an x server, but
other then that, it is happy to mount things using the CLI. It works
in FC6 snf F7 for me. One bug in gnome-mount is that it produces the
X error even when using the -t or --text option...

Mikkel
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