On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 08:44 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 4/29/05, Colin Carter wrote:
When troubleshooting any of the usb automount stuff, I look at the end of the dmesg output.
dmesg displays a kernel memory buffer full of logs.
I would plug in your device, wait 60 seconds, then type "dmesg".
In the last 10 lines or so, you should see some USB / SCSI recognition stuff.
With 9.2 I often see the device recognized as /dev/sda, but nothing shows up in /media.
I just manually mount the device "mount /dev/sda /mnt" or whatever mount point you like.
/dev/sda is not always correct. If the device has partitions on it that are recognized you should use /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2 etc. Use the partition that you see in dmesg.
My inference is that the automount logic in 9.2 is nice feature-wise, but unreliable.
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