Automounting USB drive woes

SuSE 10.3 issue. The USB drive no longer automounts correctly. For some reason the file structure got corrupted. I attempted to remove everything by going into a terminal window, su to root, and then “rm -R file”. The command failed stating it was a read only drive.

Further, the corruption appears to have created a new mount point for the drive. The old mount point was “/media/PKBACK”. The new mount point is “/media/PKBACK# 001”. However, the automounter continues to mount /media/PKBACK versus the new folder.

I attempted to format the drive using the partitioning tool. It stated that the mount point “/media/PKBACK# 001” is invalid, so I aborted the command.

I reformatted the drive using Windows XP. The drive now reads and writes correctly, although it continues to attempt to automount to /media/PKBACK versus “PKBACK# 001”.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Weird. I rebooted with the drive inserted. The drive opened up just fine using Konqueror → storage media. Just for kicks, I rebooted without the drive, then inserted the drive, and it automounts correctly. I guess its just another Linux mystery.