On 26/12/2007, Tod Merley <todbot88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As Ed Greshko points out my dyslexia has soured the soup. I saw 1255 > but typed 1225 (twice!). That little change may well fix it. I tried both 1225 and 1255. No change in situation, ie, the drive would not mount with the same error. > The mount command you used kind of scares me. What I think you wanted > to do is to unmount your device located at /dev/sdb1. What you told > your system to do was to unmount ALL file systems found in fstab!! It > is good that the system will not unmount devices in use, you would > have lost it all. > > To unmount /dev/sdb1 issue: umount /dev/sdb1. That did not work either, so I tried the -a flag as the mount manpage says that it will unmount everything in /etc/mtab. I thought that mtab was for things added to the filesystem that are not in fstab, ie, removable media. I just cat'ed the file and I see that I was mistaken. You know, the best way to learn is to break something! However, this is my workstation and I really should be more careful. > Actually I used to contribute to both the Ubuntu and the Fedora lists. > I have both on this machine. I tend to use Fedora when connected to > the Internet since I believe that it's pretty good implementation of > SELinux makes me a bit more secure in this more hostile world. I am > glad to see this thread here since many languages are used by those > using Fedora. SELinux is the reason that I also stay with Fedora for everyday work. The other reason is that I really like the Fedora philosophy. I usually stick with N-1, however, as the most current version is always to broken for me. > > The "messages" are a bit differant though. Here is what happens when > I plug in my flash drive: > > [root@localhost dev]# tail /var/log/messages > Dec 25 19:34:35 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 2013184 512-byte > hardware sectors (1031 MB) > Dec 25 19:34:35 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off > Dec 25 19:34:35 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive > cache: write through > Dec 25 19:34:35 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 2013184 512-byte > hardware sectors (1031 MB) > Dec 25 19:34:35 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off > Dec 25 19:34:35 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive > cache: write through > Dec 25 19:34:35 localhost kernel: sdb: sdb1 > Dec 25 19:34:35 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk > Dec 25 19:34:35 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 > Dec 25 19:34:38 localhost hald: mounted /dev/sdb1 on behalf of uid 500 > > The last line is hald doing the automount. > > You may find the command lsusb -v useful. Also (from /dev before and > after inserting the flash drive): > [root@localhost dev]# ls -l sd* > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 2007-12-25 07:20 sda > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 1 2007-12-25 07:20 sda1 > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 2 2007-12-25 07:20 sda2 > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 3 2007-12-25 15:20 sda3 > [root@localhost dev]# ls -l sd* > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 2007-12-25 07:20 sda > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 1 2007-12-25 07:20 sda1 > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 2 2007-12-25 07:20 sda2 > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 3 2007-12-25 15:20 sda3 > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 16 2007-12-25 19:34 sdb > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 17 2007-12-25 19:34 sdb1 Thank you, I know about this, this is how I find where things got stuck in /dev. > Well, I am rambling! Did not sleep well last night. Does anyone? My one-year old is pushing her teeth out now, nobody sleeps! As using copepage 1255 did not work, is there anything else that I could try? I tried using flag -t msdos instead of -t vfat but that did not help either. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
