'Brownie' is right here with his last post, as are the others who are pointing out the problem relating to FAT32, etc.
You have a series of events that you need to make sure happen properly every time you reboot your computer. It could be made easier on the Linux side, but Windows has the same problem (if you start plugging in external drives, how do you ensure that DriveX is always F: and not G:?). Whenever I see the problem you're having, I know it has to do with permissions and mounting. The easiest thing to do is work with it manually. With your Linux side freshly booted, plug in your external drive...wait a minute (depends on the drive and a few other factors) and use the 'dmesg' command to see what happened. Usually, you will see something like this: SCSI device sdb: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) sdb: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdb: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 This tells me, among other things, that the drive I plugged in is now understood to be at /dev/sdb1. The next drive you'd attach would be at sdc1, etc. [Note, it's not sda or sda1 in this example because I already had another drive plugged in.] Chances are, Linux just mounted the drive for you automatically BUT, as you know well, it has given permission for only YOU to read the drive. There are a couple ways around this, but I edit fstab so that my permissions are correct. The previous message in this thread was correct: you're trying to mount a nonexistant directory (do a 'man mount' or google it). My fstab, for sdb1, reads: /dev/sdb1 /media/BLUEGLOW vfat defaults,users,noauto,umask=000,utf8 0 0 Some of these items are optional (users, utf8), some are not (umask=000). This should get your music working. -- chiphart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chiphart's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26198 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
