Paul Cartwright on 24/02/08 19:19, wrote:
On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote:Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put an icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on thatwould then mount it to /mediahal still creates /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 but I can't see it as a mounted file system. ls -la /dev/sda1/ returns "not a directory"the mount point for the "special" file /dev/sda1 would be in /media. /dev/sda wait, /dev/sda1 is my root filesystem. my USB stick is /dev/sdf . mount /dev/sdf /media/sdf1 what is the output of the mount command on your system as it normally boots: what folders do you have under /media? if sda1 is your USB stick, what happens when you type: mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ( assuming you have a folder sda1 under /media)
under /media: drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-02-21 19:17 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2008-02-20 09:02 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-03-09 21:04 cdrom -> cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-03-09 21:04 cdrom0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-03-09 21:04 floppy -> floppy0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-03-09 21:04 floppy0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-02-21 19:17 .hal-mtab --wS--x--T 1 root root 0 2006-11-13 22:14 .hal-mtab-lock.hal-mtab-lock appeared red on my terminal which looked bad, and 'file .hal-mtab-lock' said 'setuid sticky empty', so I deleted it. Didn't help much.
I can run the mount command, no problem, as root - but the trick before was that hal or thunar was taking care of that automatically, along with permissions.