Arun Khan wrote:

The problem I am facing with USB storage devices, under 11.2 (amd64) is a bit different from that being discussed under the thread:

<[opensuse] USB times out cant see what's on drives>

Whenever I attach a portable USB 2.5" HDD (with ext3 FS) the LED light on the unit stays lit infinitely with the following showing up in /var/log/messages <snip> Also, the USB 2.5" HDD unit works fine i.e. is auto mounted in OS11.1 and Ubuntu 9.04.

Anyone else experiencing this kind of problem? Any solutions?

TIA

Arun, I have experienced all kinds of weirdness with hal/dbus/policykit and usb drives. I made headway by granting myself permissions in the kde control center policy kit editor for removable drives and just about everything else I could think of. (login as root, then grant yourself permission to grant and change permissions, then you can manage everything from your account). However, before digging into policykit editing, perform a test with "Dolphin" (of all things). Believe it or not, I have had good luck with dolphin mounting usb drives (rw) for all users and once mounted by dolphin, the drives are accessible via /media/disk, /media/disk-1, etc.. in all other apps. Another trick is to plug in the usb drive and then do "cat /proc/partitions" to get a list of partitions available. Create a temporary mount point under "mnt" NOT under "media", something like "/mnt/usb" (as root or with sudo). Then just manually mount the usb partition under that mount point with the command (as root or with sudo) "mount /dev/sdb(1,2,3,etc..)" OR "mount /dev/sdb/<usbpart name>" For example, if I plug in a spare hard drive for my laptop and for some reason it doesn't mount automagically, then I just: 12:00 alchemy:~> cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 312571224 sda 8 1 1536000 sda1 8 2 83886080 sda2 8 3 1 sda3 8 5 2104483 sda5 8 6 20972826 sda6 8 7 204065631 sda7 8 16 312571224 sdb 8 17 104422 sdb1 8 18 1052257 sdb2 8 19 25607610 sdb3 8 20 285804382 sdb4 I know the root partitions is /dev/sdb3, the boot partitions is /dev/sdb1 and the home partitions is /dev/sdb4 (based on their sizes) (sdb2 is swap for completeness). So if I want to manually mount them under /mnt/usb, as root, I simply: mkdir -p /mnt/usb mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/usb mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb/boot mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/usb/home Then all your files will be accessible under /mnt/usb with the proper filesystem hierarchy for /, /boot, and /home. Of course you can create the mount point anywhere you like, but for consistence I generally create all foreign mount point under /mnt and then if I need them anywhere else, I simply create a soft link of the mount-point where needed. Like: "ln -s /mnt/usb ~/drive1". To unmount the drives, either shut down or, as root, issue the 'umount' (no 'n') command in REVERSE order that you mounted the drives (may not be necessary but IS the PROPER way) like: umount /mnt/usb/home umount /mnt/usb/boot umount /mnt/usb ..and your done. You can always check to see what is mounted where by issuing the 'mount' command without any arguments, or for a better formatted result just use the 'df -h' command (the diskfree command). Less typing and better output ;-) Others can add additional approaches to the "my usb drive didn't mount" problem :-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org