mounting usb drives on Enlightenment 16 ubuntu
 

I have ubuntu so it shouldnt really be that big of a deal right? Everything works perfectly fine on gnome, it even has automounting options which work perfectly BUT i dont really like gnome. So in goes Enlightenment.

I used debian, fedora and arch before and those where pretty predictable distros but for some reason ubuntu is quite the opposite? sure it works out of the box most of the times but they really went out there and changed a bunch of stuff already fought with some video and audio configurations(aparently all is well as long as its plug and play but as soon as its not it becomes plug and pray?)

Ok I raged too much against ubuntu, its simple, I like it; otherwise i would just change.

As you can tell i just installed it. Im running dapper with kernel 2.6.15.26.
I have 2 usb drives one mp3 player and one sd card reader(internal which is usually identified as a usb drive) and none of them appear on fstab nor mstab.
They are all clearly there on lsusb, one is in address 4 and another in 5.
I checked on gnome for the address they where supposed to be in and they where loaded from /dev/sda1 etc.

I tried writing that into fstab but didnt work. The drives are not in gnome's fstab either so I dont really have an idea of where to put them.

I obviously tried mount /dev/sda1 but since they are not even in fstab i wasnt able to mount them.

There are epplets for mounting but I havnt really installed/configured them yet.

Any ideas as to where to move from here? Im fairly new to ubuntu and not very linux knowledgable.

For some reason Enlightenment has always called my atention and the fact that I have to fight with it for a while seems more compelling. I used Fluxbox before.

any help would be apreciated.

Funny solution

I opened kopete and while browsing to choose a new picture for my avatar on msn there was a button that cought my atention "Storage Media" I clicked on it and realzied all my usb drives where right there I only clicked on them and it gave me the option to mount them and now they are mounted.

I guess the main problem was I really have no idea of how to manually mount stuff in ubuntu.

And worst enlightenment.

Now I just have to install a mounting epplet.

Here comes the next problem.

I have emount-box installed but as far as I could read in the config file its only made to mount zip drives, jaz drives, dvd drives and cd drives and when trying to configure it for something else I only got options to change the icons of the drives that it is able to mount(hmmm very usefull config)

I heard of emount but havnt found it, every page wehre I find it referenced is at least 3 or 6 years old and the download links are always dead.

Or if I can figure out how the hell to mount stuff in ubuntu I can write my own epplet but we arrive to the same strugling problem, how the hell do I mount usb drives in ubuntu then?

So any suggestions to the rather new problem?

Im also able to mount my drives with nautilus but everytime I open nautilus in enlightenment the desktop comes with it aswell. I havnt really figured out how to mount them with konqueror or krusader which are the ones I use more often.

thanks for all.

hmm... i would rather understand more if you have stated what you have done in the command line to mount those drives. just some suggestion, if you want to mount your usb drives (and if it is format as vfat (aka fat32)) :

mount -t vfat /dev/sdxx /media/any-empty-directory (where xx is the device name auto-created when pluging in the usb drives, you can check it out in /var/log/messages after few seconds you plugin the devices)

if the above is okay then insert :
/dev/sdxx /media/any-empty-directory user,noauto 0 0
and the next time you want to mount the usb after you plug in, just do a :
mount /media/any-empty-directory

hope that helps!

yup, thats what I tried but I got the device not found in fstab or mtab error.

I was usually able to mount that way with debian, arch and fedora but for some strange reason not with ubuntu.

I dont really have any idea of how or where to mount manually from ubuntu but I was able to mount it with nautilus by just right clicking on it and selecting mount device.