I messed up my usb external disk auto-mounting
I have an external usb disk. I messed up i touch the mounting properties, and changed the mount point. I did a leftclick on the desktop icon of my disk and changed it there... (this image is to point out where I changed it, this image is from my sdcard)
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4...rtiega1.th.png Now it doesnt work anymore and everytime I plug the usb disk i get this: http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7...ountzj9.th.png I dont know where to go and fix this. I looked at fstab...but nothing there. HELP! |
Hi,
You are looking on the wrong place. Look in /etc/mtab. I have a USB-hdd and in the mtab it looks like this: /dev/sde1 /media/sde1 reiserfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Anyway, why should you mess up the automount options. If it works fine leave it that way. To unmount I only swith the disk itself to off. Kind regards |
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There was no line refered to it, so I added a line, using my info... and but didnt work. I added /dev/sda1 /media/ALEUSB ntfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 and this was all that was on mtab Quote:
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Give this procedure a try.
First of all I listed /etc/mtab with the following result: /dev/sde1 /media/sde1 reiserfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Then I disconnected my usb harddisk. Then I listed /etc/mtab with the following result: Then I reconnected my usb harddisk. Then I listed /etc/mtab with the following result: /dev/sde1 /media/sde1 reiserfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Whenever I connect my usb harddisk the system asks me what to do. The options are: Do nothing or Open in a new window I usually select opening in a new window, then it opens in Konqueror, and in less than 10 seconds I can browse my usb harddrive. My drive is also an internal harddisk built in a usb-hub. And do not touch that icon on your desktop :-) |
I disconnected the disk, this appears:
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/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 Code:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 |
There must be something wrong.
Your system tells you that you have connected a memorystick, not a harddisk. I cannot tell you why your system sees a memorystick while my system recognizes it as a harddisk. Maybe you still have a Windows system somewhere. You could connect the usb hdd to it, make it a share for your Ubuntu computer and then copy the contents to an internal harddisk. The other option is to install the "memorystick" into your Ubuntu system, making it an internal harddisk. Good luck! |
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is there a way to wipe everything, so that it detects everything again, from scratch? |
Maybe the confusion is caused by an inserted usb memorystick.
Remove the inserted memory-sticks and -cards before connecting the thing to your computer. |
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The /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files have different functions: mtab handles the mounted devices and is automatically updated by the mount command. fstab is a description of the various file systems. |
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Is there a way to clear everything, so as when I reboot, the system discovers everything again. |
A reboot should clean up everything. Maybe you should disconnect the usb harddisk before rebooting. After rebooting you can reconnect it.
If you want to change mountpoints you'd better use the System Administration panel in the System Settings gui. |
Already done reboot and nothing.
Thanks anyway |
Don't you have a hardware problem?
Did you remove the lines that you added in /etc/fstab? |
I tried to manually mount the disk and this came up
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