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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