Re: Cannot use /media/ properly
Please post here output from the "mount" command after plugging the
storage media to make things more clear.
Alexey
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Merciadri Luca
<Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I am encountering a major problem which seems to be related to my
> (actually su's) /media/ folder.
>
> # ls -al | grep media
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2009-07-17 17:01 cdrom -> media/cdrom
> drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 4096 2009-10-18 21:00 media
>
> seems pretty nice, but, when a device is mounted correctly, linked,
> etc., and that I am able to access it with /media/, it always appear
> as empty. For example, let's say that I plug a `disk1' key in one of
> my USB ports. It is recognized, I can
>
> # cd /media/disk1/
>
> BUT, after this,
>
> # ls -al
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 3 merciadriluca root 8192 2009-10-18 19:16 .
> drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 4096 2009-10-18 21:42 ..
>
>
> and the folder is apparently empty. However, when I ls -al on another
> (Debian-powered) PC, the ls -al's output is correct, and there are
> several files. It is the same for any external DD, or any other mass
> storage device (that is, my non el cheapo usb key is not faulty).
>
> My first suspicion was /media's permissions, but
>
> # ls -al | grep media
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2009-07-17 17:01 cdrom -> media/cdrom
> drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 4096 2009-10-18 21:00 media
>
> is what I encounter on my `faulty' computer, and
>
> # ls -al | grep media
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-10-18 21:04 media
>
> is what I can read on one of my `not faulty' computers (which has
> actually no CDROM). The only difference seems to be in the `9' which
> is a `4' on the `not faulty' computer, but, although I do not know
> what this number aims at, it shouldn't be the cause of the problem,
> should it?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> - --
> Merciadri Luca
> See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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