USB flash drives won't mount

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

David Fletcher wrote:
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1        7870     2014704    e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> <end>
> 
> The last device, /dev/sdb1 appears to be my USB flash drive.
> 
Yes, that would be your USB drive.

> I've used windows to name the drive, which is the name given (in all upper 
> case) to the desktop icon when I mount it using my son's computer. But it 
> still won't work as it did a day or two ago on my computer, so I conclude 
> that something got broken in the last batch of updates.
> 
You are probably right. What I suspect may be the problem is the HAL
rules that are supposed to mount the device got updated, and are
being more restrictive about the partition type they are mounting.

Mikkel
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