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Simon Williams wrote: > Matthew Fairtlough wrote: >> same error message: Cannot mount volume (mount point cannot contain >> newline (??) or G_DIR_SEPARATOR (/) characters). > >> There is nothing relevant in /etc/fstab. > >> I can find no way of changing the mount point without mounting the >> thing (which I obviously can't do). > > Yes you can. > As root: > > mount -t auto [device] /mnt/tmp > > where device is probably /dev/sda1- since you are undoubtedly using > udev, look at the list of device nodes in /dev - with udev only the ones > that are connected will be present. > > The problem is that you are using the gui with an automounter (and > probably HAL), and that is automatically trying to mount it under > something like /media/[name of volume], and since the name of the volume > contains a character which isn't allowed in a folder name, the > automounter fails. > > A format will probably fix it, but there are other ways of changing the > volume label. ...Try mlabel. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html