-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2017-12-20 at 07:32 -0500, David T-G wrote:

Hi, all --

I wanted to mirror some data from one portable drive to another, so I plugged 'em in to my [new to me] Dell E6540 with SuSE to run rsync.

There is no "SuSE". So what is it you have? It might be openSUSE Tumbleweed, or openSUSE Leap (of several releases), or even SLE. What is it?

Nothing automagically* showed up in the fstab file for me to use, so I

Nothing is going to pop up in fstab.

let the notifier popup open the file manager for each of them, which then mounted them under

/run/media/root/<vol-label>

and away we went. Curiously, though, just minutes into the copy one or the other would disappear. Sometimes, by the time I walked past and saw the problem, the drive would [again?] be visible and I could click to open another file manager; sometimes it wouldn't show and I had to unplug the device to let it be recognized when I reconnected it.

After a few of those, I got tired of the problem and just manually made

/mnt/

mount points and mounted 'em directly, but they STILL fell away. Uh oh. Do I suddenly have device issues? Did I buy a dud laptop? [Oh, and I am almost positive I rebooted at least once along the way just for giggles.]

I took my Knoppix thumb drive out of my pocket and booted on that and -- on the same laptop with the same drives in the same USB slots -- we've been happily copying all night long and are still going strong. Yay that I don't have any hardware issues, but ... what's up with SuSE and its peripherals management?

Well, you could have a look at the logs and post them here or at susepaste.org. Or write a bugzilla. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlo6Xl8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Xu1gCdH0BFtmTaYdMC3mv3XS22cYmh VZIAnjKQkSfa4N63yrmqjwar9L9NLU/g =MLUb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Op woensdag 20 december 2017 13:32:40 CET schreef David T-G:

Hi, all --

I wanted to mirror some data from one portable drive to another, so I plugged 'em in to my [new to me] Dell E6540 with SuSE to run rsync. Nothing automagically* showed up in the fstab file for me to use, so I let the notifier popup open the file manager for each of them, which then mounted them under

/run/media/root/<vol-label>

and away we went. Curiously, though, just minutes into the copy one or the other would disappear. Sometimes, by the time I walked past and saw the problem, the drive would [again?] be visible and I could click to open another file manager; sometimes it wouldn't show and I had to unplug the device to let it be recognized when I reconnected it.

After a few of those, I got tired of the problem and just manually made

/mnt/

mount points and mounted 'em directly, but they STILL fell away. Uh oh. Do I suddenly have device issues? Did I buy a dud laptop? [Oh, and I am almost positive I rebooted at least once along the way just for giggles.]

I took my Knoppix thumb drive out of my pocket and booted on that and -- on the same laptop with the same drives in the same USB slots -- we've been happily copying all night long and are still going strong. Yay that I don't have any hardware issues, but ... what's up with SuSE and its peripherals management?

* I'll have to learn separately about USB and SD slot recognition, since I'd like to be able to mount something easily and without having to go and click somewhere, but that can be a separate thread.

TIA & Happy Holidays

:-D

There is a problem in at least Tumbleweed with mounting a drive on USB3. Just entered a bug report with a solution for a specific device: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1073691 -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org