Nancy Allison wrote: > Hi, all. > > When I plug in my external disk drive into my Fedora 28 machine, it does > not show up in Nautilus. > > I go looking online, and, sure enough, this problem has occurred for plenty > of people for 5+ years over many releases of Fedora. > > I find a discussion in which someone evidently solved the problem. Here is > what the person reported: > > "NVM - found the cause. Old entry in fstab for a second swap not present on > sdb1 and first USB disks being assigned sdb. Cleaned that up and now all > drives plugging correctly. > Willtech ( Sep 23 '18 )" > > How do I apply this information? Where is fstab? When does a first swap > occur? When does a second swap occur? What does it mean to be assigned sdb?
/etc/fstab consolidates mounting information. Each active line defines: <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> For example: /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 ISO9660 ro 1 1 device/partition name, then where you want it mounted, then the type of filesystem. If you have a single disk called /dev/sda, for instance, you might see your external CD show up as /dev/sdb. If there's already a /dev/sdb listed in the file, that will conflict. Hope that helps. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss