On 01/20/2016 04:33 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote:
2) Target partition was mounted BUT had quietly been auto-renamed by >my system k/t that another partition was already bearing the same >label name. Fodder for another eventual thread and why I love and >advocate UUIDs over labels or other.1) Target was external HD and was mounted.
The simple matter of permissions is often the problem. This kind of problem has cropped up for me before over an upgrade (not yet with Debian though).
Also, what exactly is the error message? Can you increase its verbosity so's to examine that as well?