David Johanson wrote:
Please see
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/de/2004/05/hmeyer_91_revert_from_subfs.html,
it's available in German only, unfortunately, but I hope it's usable.
Anyone willing to translate this to english. Three install so far and none of them see the USB devices at all. All clean installs.
Here's my attempt: Applies to: SUSE LINUX 9.1 The issue You do not like the way automatic mounting of removable media (floppy, cd, dvd) and hotplug devices (such as USB-sticks or -HDs) is done by default since 9.1, using submount/subfs. You prefer to revert to the 'classic' art of mounting media. Procedure For floppy, cd and dvd this is simply accomplished by editing /etc/fstab. In this example, showing a dvd and floppy, you change these lines /dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 to /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,exec,sync 0 0 Important: first make a backup copy of the original /etc/fstab! For media such as USB-sticks, that are connected through the hotplug mechanism, the case is somewhat more complicated, because since 9.1, no entry in /etc/fstab is added for these devices any more. Instead, these devices are connected through the hotplug scripts. Here, again, submount/subfs is used. If you would like to avoid this, you could edit the file /etc/hotplug/hotplug.subfs.functions in such a way that the hotplug mechanism does not connect these devices via submount/subfs any more: linux:/etc/hotplug # diff hotplug.subfs.functions.orig hotplug.subfs.functions 135,136c135,136 < mount $device $MP -t subfs \ < -o "${fstype}nodev,nosuid,procuid,$fsoptions" ---
mount $device $MP -t auto \ -o "nodev,nosuid,procuid,$fsoptions"
166c166 < umount $device -t subfs ---
umount $device -t auto
188c188 < /bin/grep -v '^#' /etc/fstab | /bin/awk '$3 ~ /subfs/ { print $1" "$2 }' \ ---
/bin/grep -v '^#' /etc/fstab | /bin/awk '$3 ~ /auto/ { print
$1" "$2 }' \ Instead of making these changes yourself, you could copy this alterated file from our ftp server: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/hvogel/hotplug.subfs.functions And again, first make a backup copy of the original file. Please note that these modifications would be overwritten by future updates of the hotplug package. Hence, after such an update these modifications have to be applied again. The modifications that are described here, only apply to the original hotplug package in 9.1. From this point on, hotplug will create corresponding directories under /media, when a new device is detected via Hotplug. It remains your choice to either utilize these automatically created directories, or to create your own directories. In any case, mounting the device takes place as before, for example like this: mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb-storage-4710765066451:0:0:0p1.