Environment: Dell PowerEdge 400SC
CentOS 5.3. Default window manager, whatever that is.
Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5.
Last night the drive mount applet (Disk Mounter 2.16.0.1) stopped
recognizing newly connected USB drives, although previously connected
drives continued to have their little icons.
This morning, after a system reboot, Disk Mounter shows only for the
floppy drive. USB drives are recognized, as seen in
/var/syslog/messages, but are neither auto-mounted nor made available
for GUI mounting through the applet.
I thought that maybe I had exceeded some magic number of sd<n> device
names, having internal SATA drives sda and sdb, and external USB
drives sdc, sdd, and sde. The USB memory sticks I was using were sdf
and sdg at first, then they were unmounted and not recognized again.
If I wanted to have external USB hard drives mounted at boot time
through /etc/fstab, what should I do? It has been my experience in
the past that the system will not boot if external USB drives are
connected at boot time. Even when they have file system labels.
Perhaps this is a different problem.
carl
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