I don't have an fstab entry for my hard drive, I don't think I ever did since FC4 would just find it in Gnome. (I could be wrong, I just don't remember) I know there is currently not an fstab entry for it. It used to be sda1, but now it's sdf - don't know if that matters. When I turn it on in Gnome I get the error "cannot mount volume".

Here's the dump from dmesg

usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Maxtor Model: OneTouch Rev: 0200
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdf: 240119808 512-byte hdwr sectors (122941 MB)
sdf: Write Protect is off
sdf: Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00
sdf: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdf: 240119808 512-byte hdwr sectors (122941 MB)
sdf: Write Protect is off
sdf: Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00
sdf: assuming drive cache: write through
sdf: sdf1
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdf
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

any suggestions?

Thanks!

When you attempt to mount the volume, are you root?

Im not sure what else would be the problem, and I dont mean to insult if you have already thought of this.

this is Gnome-mount which happens in the gui. Therefore, I wouldn't be root, since I don't log in as root. I'm not doing it in the command line, I'm doing it in the Gnome GUI.

Ok, so I found out that now fedora is putting it as /media/disk-2/

However, somethings about the hard drive or in the hard drive thinks that it should still be /media/usbdisk/
which is what it was before. So I need to figure out how to tell the system to think of it as /media/disk-2/
any ideas?

Thanks!

or rather, let the harddrive be at /media/usbdisk/ because I have other programs that expect to look there. The important thing is how to tell gnome to look there.

I think the answer lies in your /etc/fstab.

Open it to edit it (as root) and see if there is a line with /media/harddisk-2.

If there is, replace the "harddisk-2" with "usbdisk".

Hope that helps

There is no such line in fstab. Adding an fstab entry does not fix the problem.

Again, by putting it into fstab I can mount it, but not via Gnome-mount. The Gnome GUI refuses to acknowledge that it's mounted.