[opensuse] Re: Problem mounting WD My Book external HD

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 13:50:23 -0500 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

On 12/23/2013 12:36 PM, Stephen Berman pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:25:45 +1100 Basil Chupin wrote:

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On 23/12/13 05:17, Stephen Berman wrote:

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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]

`mount' is pretty good at guessing the filesystem, so -t is usually dispensable with common filesystems. Anyway, mounting per se isn't my problem, but automounting and getting the hard disk recognized by the device notifier. I suppose I could just make an entry for the disk in /etc/fstab, but then I think there will be an error on booting if it's not plugged in. Maybe that doesn't matter.

Use the noauto and user options in fstab so you can mount/umount at will.

/dev/sdc1 /mnt/1 ntfs noauto,user 0 0

might work, other options are avail use man fstab for more info.

Yes, thanks; I should have refreshed my memory with the man page before posting. But I'd still like to know why there's a udev timeout, which I suppose causes the device notifier not to respond to the disk... Steve Berman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org