USB flash drives not auto-mounted

[thelynx]

Greetings,

I've just installed Mageia 2 LXDE on a friend's LG X130 netbook and with a little playing around managed to get the ever-troublesome Ralink RT3090 wireless working. I thought the whole install process went very smoothly until I plugged in a USB pen drive. Nothing happened. I waited. Still nothing. Typed lsusb and my pen drive was listed. So why can't I access it from the File Manager like most other distros? I checked online and it appears that I need to mount it via the terminal. I tried rebooting with the media inserted and still no luck. Unfortunately, my friend is a complete noob (I'm only slightly above that) and will not be excited about having to type anything on the command line. If this is a bug, I would consider it a pretty major one, wouldn't you?

Has anyone found a way to make any USB device / SD Card auto-mount on plug in. Am I the only one having this problem?

I would like to say that I really do like Mageia and find it a lovely system all around, apart from this glitch.

Many thanks in advance for your help and advice.

[doktor5000]

From what media or how exactly did you install LXDE? From the DualArch CD?

[thelynx]

Yes from the DualArch but via usb.

[digigold]

A couple of options

#1 install a different FM like SpaceFM. SpaceFM is an excellent FM based on PCmanFM that will list and mount usb devices automatically (as well as many other excellent features). This is probably the easiest solution and will work with new usb devices without any setup.

#2 You could also add a specific pendrive to /etc/fstab. You will want to use the UUID since it could be located in different places (sdb1, sdc1, etc.).

So if it is currrently located at /dev/sdb1 run:

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# blkid /dev/sdb1


This outputs:
/dev/sdb1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="TRAVELDRIVE" UUID="498E-71B5" TYPE="vfat"

So if we want it mounted to say /media/fdrv/ we would add the following line to /etc/fstab:

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UUID=498E-71B5 /media/fdrive vfat defaults 1 0


You have to add each device individually this way though so I would lean towards solution #1

[Ken-Bergen]

Yes from the DualArch but via usb.

Is this the same usb drive you're wanting to mount?