Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE -- SOLVED

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:41:47 -0500, ntrfug wrote:

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:59:42 -0500
ntrfug <ntrfug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For years I have been able to use external hard drives and thumb drives
on my systems, but not since I installed Wheezy.

...

The problem is not limited to devices with NTFS file systems; I can't
mount ext2 or ReiserFS devices either.

I backup my system by exchanging the CD/DVD device for a second hard
drive, partitioned the same as my system hard drive.

I thought I would be organized, and created entries in /etc/fstab for
each of those second-hard-drive partitions; the first was NTFS. I, umm,
don't back up every day ;) and I had forgotted about those entries.

Whenever I inserted any removable device, the system saw it as
/dev/sdb1, looked in fstab, and tried to mount the device as NTFS.

When I commented out the offending lines in fstab I was able to mount
removable devices normally.

That's why we have to use UUID instead >:-)

Camaleón, the log excerpt was posted to the thread in my Sun, 1 Apr 2012
08:15:21 -0500 reply to Andrei.

Thanks.

But if you mean this:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/04/msg00024.html

I see no mention there to the afore mentioned NTFS-3G warning at all ;-)

Greetings,

--
Camaleón


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