My USB drive (an Extreme 64Mb usb flash disk, recognised as "Oti flash disk" or similar both under Windows and Linux) has a problem since a couple of YOU ago. Everything worked fine until I upgraded the kernel (should be two kernel updates ago IIRC): now the drive is being mounted as /dev/sda1 on /media/usb-storage-7777777777777777:0:0:0p1 type subfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,procuid,iocharset=utf8) instead of the usual vfat. Result: the system hangs in every operation I try to do (cp, mv, etc.) both from KDE and from the shell. I tried unmounting and then remounting the drive as vfat, and everything works correctly. I was wondering if there were some ways to fix/workaround this. Thanks in advance, S.
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 07:46 +0200, Silvio Moioli wrote:
My USB drive (an Extreme 64Mb usb flash disk, recognised as "Oti flash disk" or similar both under Windows and Linux) has a problem since a couple of YOU ago. Everything worked fine until I upgraded the kernel (should be two kernel updates ago IIRC): now the drive is being mounted as
/dev/sda1 on /media/usb-storage-7777777777777777:0:0:0p1 type subfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
instead of the usual vfat. Result: the system hangs in every operation I try to do (cp, mv, etc.) both from KDE and from the shell. I tried unmounting and then remounting the drive as vfat, and everything works correctly. I was wondering if there were some ways to fix/workaround this.
I had the same problem. I edited /etc/fstab and inserted the correct parameters, following which the problem was solved. This can also be done via YaST/partitioner. I also created a new directory, /media/usbdisk, and mounted it there, because I got fed up typing /media/usb-storage-xxxxxxxxxetcetc! I think its best not to mount the partition on boot, just when you need to access it. HTH David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ "The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."
Worse surprise: neither the manual mount nor the fstab/mount -a approach seem to work anymore. A simple cp would hang after some kbs of data (in my case a few text files). Other commands fail as well. Note I obviously disabled submount from /etc/sysconfig/hotplug. On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 08:10, David Robertson wrote:
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 07:46 +0200, Silvio Moioli wrote:
My USB drive (an Extreme 64Mb usb flash disk, recognised as "Oti flash disk" or similar both under Windows and Linux) has a problem since a couple of YOU ago. Everything worked fine until I upgraded the kernel (should be two kernel updates ago IIRC): now the drive is being mounted as
/dev/sda1 on /media/usb-storage-7777777777777777:0:0:0p1 type subfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
instead of the usual vfat. Result: the system hangs in every operation I try to do (cp, mv, etc.) both from KDE and from the shell. I tried unmounting and then remounting the drive as vfat, and everything works correctly. I was wondering if there were some ways to fix/workaround this.
I had the same problem. I edited /etc/fstab and inserted the correct parameters, following which the problem was solved. This can also be done via YaST/partitioner. I also created a new directory, /media/usbdisk, and mounted it there, because I got fed up typing /media/usb-storage-xxxxxxxxxetcetc! I think its best not to mount the partition on boot, just when you need to access it.
HTH
David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/
"The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 22:23 +0200, Silvio Moioli wrote:
Worse surprise: neither the manual mount nor the fstab/mount -a approach seem to work anymore. A simple cp would hang after some kbs of data (in my case a few text files). Other commands fail as well. Note I obviously disabled submount from /etc/sysconfig/hotplug.
Where did you mount it - I had the problem with the system "hanging" if mounted on /media/usb-storage-xyz After creating a new mount point (/media/usb_disk) there were no problems if manually mounted there. However, I have absolutely no idea why that should be! David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ "The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."
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