On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Parag Shah <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> This is really wierd. Till yesterday the mount point of my SD card (on > an > >> >> Ubuntu 9.10 system) was /media/3034-2229 and today morning it has >> become >> >> "/media/BODY>?<_HTM". >> >> >> >> I don't believe I have done anything to mess this up, but still does >> anyone >> >> have any clues, what could I have done to create this mess? >> >> <http://blog.adaptivesoftware.biz> >> >> >> > >> > Sorry to have missed out this detail - I am running Ubuntu through Wubi. >> >> Don't know why Ubuntu changed the mount point. You may not have >> changed anything knowingly but Ubuntu updates might have installed a >> newer kernel or low level device managment software? >> >> What kind of filesystem do you have on the SD Card. I usually give a >> "volume" name to each of my removable media. Linux mounts it on >> /media/<volume_name> >> >> >> > Hi Arun, > > The filesystem type is VFAT. > > I had just started running an update when I noticed the problem. > Unfortunately I did not check before starting the update, so I do not know > if the update may have caused this, or if it was already present before I > started the update. > > Interestingly I do not have an entry in /etc/fstab to auto-mount the SD > card, yet it is auto-mounted. Are there any other scripts which auto-mount > removable media? > > Is it possible that starting Nautilus auto-mounts external volumes? > > I am thinking of 2 things: > 1. Either the volume's name has changed, and some script is picking up the > mount point name from the volume's name > 2. The script which auto-mounts the volume is corrupted ?? > > > I installed GParted to determine the volune label of my SD card, and the label has indeed changed. Not sure what could have changed the label. I used mtools (mlabel) to rename the label to something more meaningful. -- Thanks & Regards Parag Shah http://blog.adaptivesoftware.biz _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
