Can't mount USB drive in F14
JD
jd1008 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 01:21:41 UTC 2010
On 11/03/2010 06:12 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote:
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> 2010/11/3 Jason E. High <jason.high at gmail.com
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> I just installed F14 yesterday, and I'm coming from Ubuntu. In
> Ubuntu,
> whenever I plugged in a thumb drive or connected my Motorola Droid, it
> would automatically mount.
>
> In F14, it tries to mount but just an error pops up and tells me that
> I'm 'Not Authorized.'
>
> It lists the drive in the Places menu, and I've tried adding my user
> accounts to various groups, including root, with no success. I've
> seen
> a few threads online with similar complaints, but have yet to come
> across any solutions.
>
> Help?
>
> Jason E. High
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> Hi Jason! Humm, in Fedora 13/14 you can work with any kind of USB
> performing normal tasks,
> try another port and plug your usb again to start copyng/reading files
> from it.
>
> Some programs like UnetBootin need to mount the usb trough the console:
>
> 1.- fdisk -lu
>
> 2.- mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt (Here you have to put the correct
> device you want to mount acording to the fdisk list)
>
> And that's all... Verify your USB is OK with Gparted.
>
> Good Luck!
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I have had same intermittent prolems in F13, and I still get them once
in a while.
Problem is gvfs. Sometimes it just fails to mount the media's storage.
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