Error messages when trying to open Cruzer memory stick in Anti-X
 

My stick appears as sdb1 when I open SpaceFM desktop. However when I try to open it I get this error message:
Run:Mount /dev/sdb1
Status:Finished with error ( exit status 4 )
Error:mount point /media/sdb1 is already in /etc/fstab, associated to device UUID=D19A-3623

I am positive I accessed the files in the stick before simply by clicking on the icon and clicking open on the drop down menu. I went to the Office Libre Writer files and I even have the files listed I had opened and worked on. It says now they do not exist. They do I can access them on WIndows XP which I also have on this computer. No doubt I am making some stupid mistake. I wish Linux had a simple My computerk screen where I could just click on the image of my USB stick in the port.
I get the same error if I try to mount or remount the device. Perhaps I am just in the wrong place to open it. The light is on on the stick and when I remove the stick the sdb1 icon disappears.

I just went to Anti-X control center and they have a section on managing disks and one is for USB2. My Cruze is listed there and I just clicked refresh. When I went back to the icon in the Space FM desktop I was able to open the disk and access the files with no problem. Sorry to bother people. THe issue seems solved. I will try the same process if it happens again.

What I did in the AntX control center must have been just concidentally related to my problem. Now I have rebooted the same issue and same error message is appearing and going back and doing what I did before did not help. In any event it looks as if the directions there have to do with creating a a live boot from a USB stick. It seems that from time to time the system just decides to open the files but mostly I get the error message as first described. So I still do not have a solution.

You should not get the error/etc/fstab is a file which holds mount details of permanent disks.
USB sticks are automatically mounted (and unmounted if you click the safely remove icon); they do not appear in /etc/fstab.

If you enter the following command (no parameters)you should see 10-20 lines of output - what do the last 3 or 4 look like?
Some sample output:-BTW That last entry refers to a bootable USB stick.

Your output may look considerably different.

Here is the entire output when I typed in the command "mount"
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=218000,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=622,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=206312k,mode=755)
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=412600k)

Hope this helps thanks for your reply. I don't really need to use the USB stick on Antix since I can just switch to Windows XP. I am only here a few days each month and there is no problem with my other computers. I will be leaving here tomorrow at noon so I may not be able to test out your replies for another couple of weeks. Thanks for your help.

I went to control center and then to the mount devices section. In the dialogue it had a different device listed to mount but there was also an icon titled list. When I clicked on that I got a list of all the connected devices including sbd1 which is the Cruzer memory stick. I just erased the device name that was in the box and typed /dev/sdb1 and then I deleted the mount point since it was related to the cdrom. I clicked on mount and a window at the side appeared with all the appended devices as icons. I clicked on the sdb1 icon and all the files appeared and were listed in a window below. I then closed the windows and went back to the Space FM file manager and found sdb1 again and clicked on it and lo and behold the files appeared. However when I log off and try to access sdb1 again the same error message appears. However I now know how to get around the problem but it still seems a bit weird that it should keep happening this way.
I opened a file and entered several paragraphs of text. I then rebooted into Windows XP and looked at the file. Antix had properly saved the text to the disk.

I'm glad you found a workround.

I'm not familiar with SpaceFM - it seems to be very complex.
If your system allows it, you may find a more lightweight desktop/file manager to be more user friendly.

Could you please post your etc/ fstab here?
If it is complaining about an entry already in etc / fstab it sounds like the automatic disk mount from live (or use with rox-filer) is still enabled.

Note:- my /etc/fstab is a bit nonstandard - but basically reasonable:-Note that there are two disks, sda and sdb, also a connection to a small Network Attached Storage (NAS) device;
I have no swap partition, but I do have a swapfile in /