Hi, I’m having a problem with my usb disks, on opensuse 11.2. USB disks only mount the first time after booting.
The scenario is, I boot, then I plug a usb disk. It mounts properly and I can use it. After I unmount it and unplug the disk, I try to plug it in and it doesn’t mount. And none of my other usb disks will mount as well.
The only workaround is to reboot.
I checked /var/log/messages, and the disk is being detected, it’s just not being mounted.
kde or gnome?
@caf4926: gnome
I’ve sort of solved this specific problem, but regressed an earlier problem I had in this forum thread
I was using the factory version of devicekit, because of the FAT filename case problem I had. Now, I downgraded back to the 11.2 repository version of devicekit (ver 007-2.1), and devices now mount again, but the shortname option is again set to “lower”, which is wrong for my cameras’ memory cards 
Anyway I can have those specific changes in factory, but still using stable repos?
Strange, I haven’t had any trouble.
Well of course you wouldn’t ;), unless you were using the devicekit package from factory.
Well this thread is “solved”, in a way, but my other thread is back to unsolved.
Which is :
Right now the cards are being mounted with shortname=lower. That option causes my (vfat) memory card’s files to appear with lowercase letters, but I’m more used to have 8.3-style msdos filenames as uppercase, (unless specifically mixed case).
My Camera in Digikam shows files on the memory card in Uppercase.
hmm interesting, could you check mount for the mount options? What version of devicekit are you using? You mentioned digikam, are you kde or gnome?
On mine, I get shortname=lower when mounting usb disks.
thanks,
Devicekit Using: ver 007-2.1
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KDE of course!
I’m not too familiar with policykit. I thought it was devicekit that mounted the drives, since that was the only thing I did that was able to successfully change the shortname option.
Sorry my bad - Typo
Devicekit is what I should have said
I’ve been using these 2 versions
DeviceKit-disks|007-2.1 from standard 11.2 repo
DeviceKit-disks|009-1.14 from OSS_Factory repo
the 007 version mounts files as shortname=lower, but can mount multiple usb disks
the 009 version mounts only once per boot, but shortname=mixed
Well I have never had any issue with any installs I have done and it’s more then a few!
Just FYI:
USB pen drives with data on them, mount and display contents and display as per original files.
Yes, mine as well. My vfat drives display long names properly. Or if I created the files with mixed case.
The inconsistency only happens if the original files never had a long name, such as when coming from a digital camera. It’s a pain because for all these years all my images from the camera are upper-cased, consistent with behavior on Windows. I have scripts to handle my photo backups and organization, and now I start to get duplicates because of upper/lower case inconsistency.
Trouble is, I am running a unfiddled with set of config files, you are not.
You could try comparing a live cd of gnome and kde and see if they behave differently.
