Hello all! I have been using linux as my main OS for about 4 months now. I can finally install software, switch video to a projector, and my other basic tasks. Now that I can use mepis as it is, I want to be able to customize it to me. With that, I bring a usb drive issue to you. I know that mepis will scan for new hardware on boot and load the driver for it. So when my drive is plugged in before booting everything is fine. But when I plug it in after a boot, mepis is not always able to mount it. The icon will come up, but it will not mount. How do I fix this?

Type of drive? Hard Drive or Flash?

Flash drive. And its Mepis 3.4 if it makes a difference.

Can you mount the drive in the terminal as root?

Hmm...Im not sure of the command for that. In Kwikdisk its called sda and it doesnt show up in there when I cant mount it when i just plug it in.

as root:

mount /dev/sda/ /mnt

That should mount the files to the /mnt directory

for more information:

info mount

I just got done trying that...no mounting yet And the info command didnt work, but man does. Im playing around with the mount command for the time being though.

When I put in:

mount /dev/sda /mnt

It mounted the drive as /mnt...but the files are read-only when I open them not as root. I did find out that that umount is the command for unmounting I love the commandline. Alas! This is progress

Since you have read only you can change that by typing as root:

chmod 777 /mnt/* -R

That will mean that everyone can do everything to the files.

Give it a try. Also see man chmod

Not sure if that will change anything on the memory stick though. I have suse and never need to mount a USB drive. Let me know what happens.

Currently trying to get chmod to do what it should...this oddly reminds me of trying to program motorola microprocessors...