Cannot mount USB devices

[Thomas Milne]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Slack Rat <slacker-MOdoAOVCFFcswetKESUqMA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Thomas Milne a écrit profondement:
>
> | I installed some newer gvfs packages, specifically gvfs-fuse, and now
> | I'm having trouble mounting anything.
> |
>
> TRY THIS
>
> First make a simple script to save repeated typing  and/or to call up the UUID
> listing if you forget the exact syntax
>
> call it 'getuuid' and put it in /usr/local/bin or wherever you put
> your scripts
>
> barebones script;
> ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
>
> The following examples are from part of my system - modify them to suit yourself
>
> Execute getuuid
>
> It shows this: [your list may not be ordered as I Cooked this ;)]
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-05-18 15:16 7AC4B6EDC4B6AAB1-> ../../sda1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-05-18 15:16 1ADB-0F8C -> ../../sda2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-05-18 15:16 2eb54981-5631-462c-950f-b66a86748239 -> ../../sda3
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-05-18 15:16 b64f9ecb-b643-4221-955d-9d7f3c04191f -> ../../sda4
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-05-18 19:17 3947f95b-5be5-4ab3-a562-3121af3fe269 -> ../../sdb1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-05-18 19:17 d4738dee-116a-4c17-9c17-703f4044ed2c -> ../../sdb2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-05-18 19:17 ccc5f159-5506-46cf-bc70-9a69a1a71d1a -> ../../sdb3
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-05-18 19:17 0fe8cbfe-e87b-4a12-9a36-e0956968c934 -> ../../sdb4
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-05-18 19:17 4B2E-30DD -> ../../sdc1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-05-18 19:17 1b7548e1-47c9-4cff-a915-0f7be5c18dd0 -> ../../sdc2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-05-18 19:17 bd8d3706-0b44-4ba0-bbfa-88796b36bc7d -> ../../sdc3
>
>
>
> At this stage you should be able to figure out which drive is which - if
> not do them one by one so you are sure
>
> Now physically mark them - I have several but only show two USB plus the
> internal here as an example - a bit of paper stuck on with adhesive tape
> is great
>
>
> Now I use scripts to mount/umount because drives get moved from box
> to box
>
> SDA is internal and I mount it in fstab which looks like this
>
> # INTERNAL HARD DRIVE - sda3 is / and sda4 is swap
> UUID=7AC4B6EDC4B6AAB1                           /mnt/sda1        ntfs        defaults         1   0
> UUID=1ADB-0F8C                                  /mnt/sda2        vfat        defaults         1   1
> UUID=2eb54981-5631-462c-950f-b66a86748239       /                ext4        defaults         1   1
> UUID=b64f9ecb-b643-4221-955d-9d7f3c04191f       swap             swap        defaults         0   0
> # INTERNAL CD DRIVE
> #/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,ro  0   0
> # EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES mount by scripts in /usr/local/bin
> devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
> proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0
> tmpfs            /dev/shm         tmpfs       defaults         0   0
>
> For sdb and sdc I use the following scripts
>
> SDB - note I don't use the driveID for the mount points as the driveiD
> can change [no /mnt/sdb1 etc or all kinds of horribles can happen]
>
> #! /bin/sh
> mkdir -p /mnt/b1 1>/dev/null 2>&1
>  [use something you will recognize instead of 'b1' etc]
> mkdir -p /mnt/b2  1>/dev/null 2>&1
> mkdir -p /mnt/b3  1>/dev/null 2>&1
> mkdir -p /mnt/b4  1>/dev/null 2>&1
>                mount -t ext3 UUID=3947f95b-5be5-4ab3-a562-3121af3fe269 /mnt/b1
>                mount -t ext3 UUID=d4738dee-116a-4c17-9c17-703f4044ed2c /mnt/b2
>                mount -t ext3 UUID=ccc5f159-5506-46cf-bc70-9a69a1a71d1a /mnt/b3
>                mount -t ext3 UUID=0fe8cbfe-e87b-4a12-9a36-e0956968c934 /mnt/b4
> # EOF
>
> AND SDC
>
> #! /bin/sh
> mkdir -p /mnt/c1  1>/dev/null 2>&1
> mkdir -p /mnt/c2  1>/dev/null 2>&1
> mkdir -p /mnt/c3  1>/dev/null 2>&1
>                mount -t vfat UUID=4B2E-30DD /mnt/c1
>                mount -t ext3 UUID=1b7548e1-47c9-4cff-a915-0f7be5c18dd0 /mnt/c2
>                mount -t ext3 UUID=bd8d3706-0b44-4ba0-bbfa-88796b36bc7d  /mnt/c3
>
> # EOF
>
> You will be able to figurre out for yourself how to unmount them
>
> Good Luck
>

I kinda want to fix gvfs.


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