Jochen Schulz <m...@well-adjusted.de> writes: > Paul E Condon: >> >> I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside, >> not solid state 'disks'). From time to time I need to perform format >> maintenance on one of them. In order to do this, I look in /dev to see >> what device name has been assigned to the drive, umount it, and do >> whatever - e2fsck, tune2fs, etc. But when I'm finish doing >> maintenance, how to I remount it without pulling the USB cable, > > The actions you listed change neither the partition layout nor > filesystem UUIDs, so you should be able to just mount it again, using > the same device name or UUID as before.
I've faced the same problem yesterday, and I was not able to solve it. When I mount/umount manually a device, I am able to mount it again. But if I mount it in kde, and then ask to safely remove device, then the device files pointing to the partitions are no longer in /dev/; and even the device pointing to the whole disk (e.g. /dev/sdf) raises an error when I do a simple `file -s /dev/sdf`. > > J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
