Re: Doubled external usb hard drives?
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:22:46 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 25 Dec 2011 at 15:16:11 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> This morning my usb external hard drive started playing up by showing >> two instances, i.e.;- >> ~~~ >> ls -l /media total 48 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 22 20:10 >> 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 drwxrwxr-x 184 root boztu 12288 >> Dec 24 18:13 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ >> ~ > ^ > ^ > ^ > These are two different mount points. ^ Correct. And it has happened because udisks tries to automount drives onto /media/ (creating a new directory there first). But if it finds a directory already exists there, it will append an underscore and try again, and so on. Witness: $ cd /media $ ls Elements Elements-1T u01 $ mount|grep Elements-1T /dev/sdb1 on /media/Elements-1T type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,uhelper=udisks) $ sudo umount /dev/sdb1 $ mount|grep Elements-1T $ ls Elements u01 $ sudo mkdir Elements-1T $ ls Elements Elements-1T u01 (now unplug the disk, then plug it in again) $ ls Elements Elements-1T Elements-1T_ u01 $ mount|grep Elements-1T /dev/sdb1 on /media/Elements-1T_ type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,uhelper=udisks) $ Additional remark: That's why I always give my USB thumb drives as well as my USB external disks sensible labels like "Red_USB" or "Elements-1T". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jd88vh$sb5$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Doubled external usb hard drives?
On Sun 25 Dec 2011 at 15:16:11 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > This morning my usb external hard drive started playing up by showing > two instances, i.e.;- > ~~~ > ls -l /media > total 48 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 22 20:10 > 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 > drwxrwxr-x 184 root boztu 12288 Dec 24 18:13 > 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ > ~ ^ ^ ^ These are two different mount points. ^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111225182246.GO3655@desktop
Re: Doubled external usb hard drives?
I've found that if i put a backspace [ _ ] after 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ then I can access the drive in konqureor and the cli. So its not all doom and gloom. Sharon. On 25 December 2011 15:16, Sharon Kimble wrote: > This morning my usb external hard drive started playing up by showing > two instances, i.e.;- > ~~~ > ls -l /media > total 48 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 22 20:10 > 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 > drwxrwxr-x 184 root boztu 12288 Dec 24 18:13 > 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ > ~ > > There was some problem with kernel errors I saw whilst I rebooted to > try to clear it, but it was so faint and beneath my wallpaper and then > scrolled off before I could read it, that I dont know what it said. > > This is its line from /etc/fstab ;- > ~~ > /dev/sdb1 /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 auto > default\ > s 0 0 > ~~ > > Can anyone help me out please as I use this drive for all my backups > and it holds five months of them so it is rather important to me. > > Sharon. > -- > A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html > efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ > efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ > Debian 6,0.3, Gnome 1:2.30+7, LibreOffice 3.4.4 > Registered Linux user 334501 -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian 6,0.3, Gnome 1:2.30+7, LibreOffice 3.4.4 Registered Linux user 334501 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cam9u--f9cgmz3doqpwjccqorxvyojy-mrjkmu+96abchhnx...@mail.gmail.com
