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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009, Paul Sutton wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Is anyone able to go on the irc channel please and help us out with some >> stuff, not just me > > Not used ITC for about 15 years... Hmm... > >> The auto mount has broken AGAIN !!! i plug in a flash drive, it mounts >> but I can't write to it >> >> yes I have tried manually doing it, fails >> yes I was root at the time or used sudo >> >> it fails >> >> please help > > And people ask me why I don't use hotplug, udev, auto-mount and all that > fancy new fangled stuff ... > > I don't know how to turn automount off on your chosen distribution, but if > it were me, I'd disable automount, hotplug, etc. and then try to manually > mount it. I suspect the automounter is getting in the way of your manual > mounting efforts. > > What does the output of: > > mount > > and > > df -h > > give (30 seconds) after it's plugged in? > > Gordon > > I kinda found a fix, plug ina hub, plug device in to hub and it er mounts properly don't ask why, anyway hopefully I can get upgraded to jaunty soon Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet :Saturday ** June 6th ** : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoe8DQACgkQaggq1k2FJq0NuQCePn2n/u2lQNemxwPbVGRH78d/ gR8AoJR5xNTPCGbrXnpv7v/dgzS1DQGL =ox1d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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