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Re: USB Drive "The location could not be displayed"





On 29 August 2016 at 20:20, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:

 

I tried changing permissions of /media.  Not solved.

an NTFS partition was not mountable unless dismounted from the automatic mount point; as far as I can see, this is not the case for vfat or ext4 partitions. 

I did copy a udev rule for setting permissions---something above my level of understanding, however.  If anything, the situation was worse.

It has been very frustrating to google for 2 hours on this probably very simple problem.  I think the solution is just to mount them manually.  Still, it would be helpful to automount them, or mount via fstab.  I have not had success mouting by label, and one does not know in advance whether some usb flash drive might preempt these drive designations.

BTW I am pleased to be running a Debian system again after some years.  It took a good deal of work, though, to get it set up on an iMac with a broadcom wifi adaptor!  


 What I do (if this is an external disk I will be using regularly) is to specify it in /etc/fstab e.g.:

UUID=c8cb3c35-6b19-40e2-be34-e6e3bde03fa4 /media/1tb_klein  ext4 user,rw,noauto 0 0

the 'user' option allow me then to mount it like this:

mount /media/1tb_klein

and I can read/write there.

If after it is mounted there is a problem with ownership, I change it after the device was mounted:


chown js.js /media/1tb_klein


By the way the packages pmount is useful to mount hogpluggable devices as user.

If the device is for instance /dev/sdb1 and you do as user pmount /dev/sdb1  it will create /media/sdb1 and mount the device there.
Use pumount /dev/sdb1 to unmount.

Regards
Johann

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