This is quite the bug, actually. I have two USB drives. My original, which I presumed was bad (since it wouldn't load in 8.04), still refuses to auto mount. It gets detected by the kernel, and recognized by hal, to some degree, but fails to actually mount anywhere. My other USB drive works flawlessly. Plug it in and it mounts.
I used the mtools package to attempt to determine the differences between the two. What I found was the the original device is missing a disk type attribute (well, it's blank). The working one shows FAT16. Out of curiosity I tried to mount both manually (I disabled hal), [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/hal stop * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald [ OK ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt mount: you must specify the filesystem type I swapped in the "working" drive. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls /mnt/ ... files ... For some reason mount isn't detecting the filesystem correctly. I decided to try dosfsck to see if I could perhaps fix the problem with my disk type attribute. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dosfsck /dev/sdd1 dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN Seek to 4127161856:Invalid argument And on the new one I get... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dosfsck /dev/sdd1 dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN ... copious output ... I'm not sure exactly what all this means, but I suspect that the problem with most of these USB drives is that they were used with a previous version of ubuntu that corrupted them in some way so that the newest version is unable to automatically read and mount them. Can anyone else confirm my findings? -- USB Thumb Drive can't mount anymore in Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211760 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
