Anyone else having problems with removable (USB/CD) drives not mounting? This started for me a few weeks ago and I really would like to get it resolved to find out if it is popping up with other people.
Thank you!
Hi kahu. I’ve never had a problem with this with any version of openSUSE. (I’m currently running 11.3 with KDE4.6.5). In order to get useful responses, you need to specify the openSUSE version and desktop environment you’re using. That is the minimum info you should supply.
Well it depends what operating system you’re using. I’m using openSUSE Tumbleweed based on openSUSE 11.4. That won’t mount/allow NTFS USB drives to mount automatically because of a bug.
What is your operating system and what sort of USB drives are involved?
PS – forgot to add that the file /etc/filesystems should look like this (fixes the bug):
vfat
hfs
minix
reiserfs
ntfs
*
Note the ntfs entry.
But that might not be your problem, or it might.
Yes I’ve fixed that /etc/filesystems a while ago.
I’m running OpenSUSE 11.4 + Tumbleweed with updated repos.
~> uname --all
Linux outdoored-dir 2.6.39.2-36-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 4 10:56:19 UTC 2011 (b4495f4) i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
I have a USB keyboard and mouse which work fine, and I also find issues when trying to use Nautilus, which I’m not sure are related for not:
Nautilus cannot handle “network” locations.
and
Nautilus cannot handle “ftp” locations.
I’m currently using Gnome 3.0.2 but cannot seem to find any difference when using IceWM or XFCE.
Thank you!
I’ve installed a KDE session, and now have USB drives mounting!
However my fstab network mounted drives do not mount!! Is there a reason these features would flip-flop on me like this?
However my fstab network mounted drives do not mount!!
That can happen when mounting is attempted at boot before your network is up. If you have cifs mounts, do you have the _netdev option employed in your /etc/fstab entries?
A classic sign that this is the issue, is when you manually mount using
mount -a
and all works ok.
If you’re not sure about this, post the contents of /etc/fstab here.
This guide might be worth reviewing as well:
Samba: HowTo Mount a CIFS Network Share [AKA Map Network Drive] in openSUSE 11 plus FAQs
AFAIR there is CIFS helper to mount CIFS shares from fstab (in services).
I think its name is just ‘cifs’, I don’t remember exactly, but it has good description.
If automounting USB drive at boot time doesn’t work, you can use “udisks” manually from command line (add it somewhere in autostart).
the “sudo mount -a” doesn’t work, at least after a minute or two there is no response. Here’s my fstab:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160812AS_4LS25NQX-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160812AS_4LS25NQX-part6 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160812AS_4LS25NQX-part7 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
//192.168.123.102/oaks-staff/kahu /home/kahu/Documents cifs guest,_netdev,uid=kahu,gid=users
//192.168.123.102/oaks-staff /home/kahu/oaks-staff cifs guest,_netdev,uid=kahu,gid=users
//192.168.123.102/pg-files /home/kahu/PG-FILES cifs credentials=/home/kahu/.scripts/.creds,_netdev,uid=kahu,gid=users 0 0
//192.168.123.136/docs/ /home/kahu/SMC3 cifs guest,_netdev,uid=kahu,gid=users
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
It would have been useful if you’d shown us the output of ‘mount’ so that we could verify what was mounted (or not).
Anyway, what happens if you try to mount one of your guest shares from a root console?
mount -t cifs -o guest //192.168.123.102/oaks-staff/kahu /home/kahu/Documents
Does that work ok?
Are any of your cifs mounts present?
I also note that you don’t have column 5 and 6 entries for your guest cifs mounts (often 0 0 for a file sytsem that does not need to be dumped or fsck checked) but I’m not sure if they need to be included in/etc/fstab.