On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:13:46 -0800 Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > <much silliness deleted> > > > Ok from all this, I wonder if the drive is corrupt. It is connected. Why can't > > I manually mount it? > > Because you're trying to mount the block device, rather than a partition on > it. Example: > > rei $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdf > > Disk /dev/sdf: 519 MB, 519569408 bytes > 129 heads, 32 sectors/track, 245 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4128 * 512 = 2113536 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdf1 1 246 507376 4 FAT16 <32M > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(249, 128, 32) logical=(245, 106, 32) > > rei $ mount | grep sdf > /dev/sdf1 on /mnt/usbstick type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=mwilson) > > > > Why doesn't something try to automount it for me? > > What would this "something" be? Have you installed something that would do > that for you? Are you using a recent Gnome or KDE that would do that by > default? No, I don't know in what version Gnome started doing that... I > don't use Gnome. Nor KDE, for that matter. > > IMHO automount is an incredibly broken behavior. Gnome users swear that > it's desirable, though. Your mileage may vary. d'oh! A > > -- > Marc Wilson | Show your affection, which will probably meet with > msw@cox.net | pleasant response. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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