On 23/12/13 05:17, Stephen Berman wrote:
I'm on openSUSE 13.1. I have a 3TB Western Digital My Book external hard disk and it does not get automatically mounted, nor recognzed at all by the device notifier. When I plug it in, /var/log/messages gives the attached output, which indicates that the kernel recognizes the disk but systemd-udevd worker hits a timeout and gets killed. I found references online to such a timeout with other devices but could not find a solution to my problem. I am, however, able to mount the My Book manually as root:
# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/1 The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). The file system wasn't safely closed on Windows. Fixing.
An online search suggests these messages are because the hard disk is NTFS formatted. AFAICT the disk is successfully mounted and readable; I haven't yet tried writing to it.
Does anyone know if and how I can get this external hard disk to mount automatically and not just as root?
Steve Berman
As far as I am aware, the correct mounting statement is: mount -t [FS] /dev/sdcX /[mnt]/[some-directory-in-[mnt] which in your case would be- mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc1 /mnt/1 and you create "1" in /mnt by whichever means you want (I use mc [Midnight Commander]). (see 'man mount' in console). Now re WD. I had a heck of time with trying to do anything with a WD 2TB HDD which I finally "threw away" and bought a Seagate. I believe the reason why I had so much trouble was because of the way they are formatted - 1MB something-or-other.....sorry cannot remember. The other reason why you are having a hassle with it and getting the above error message is that the HDD was not shutdown correctly and the flag that unwirtten data has not been written to the HDD. Hook the HDD to a Windows system and then close the HDD correctly (ie, you get the message that, "The device can now be safely removed.") Never remove the HDD or a USB stick without doing this procedure in either Windows or a Linux distro. Oh, there is one other thing which you probably may not be aware of. The bright sparks who always have our - ie, the users - interests at the bottom of all their endeavours is that if you do finally get to get to successfully get a USB device plugged in then you should know that the device no longer shows up in /media/[device] but rather it now shows up -wait for it, wait for it!......in /var/run/media/<your-login-name>/<device>. Cute, eh? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.12.0 & kernel 3.12.5-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org