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tony5429

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[S0LVED] USB Flash Drive Mounting with Weird Names

I am using KDE 4.4.5 on Arch64. Typically my USB flash drive (FAT) has mounted as /media/disk. However, a few weeks ago it started mounting with a really weird string of characters. After going to a Windows machine and scanning it for errors, this has fixed the issue a couple times. Now it has happened again except running Windows error scanning doesn't seem to help. Does anyone have any ideas?

Here's the output from "cfdisk /dev/sdb",

                                                 cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.18)

                                                     Disk Drive: /dev/sdb
                                               Size: 16011542528 bytes, 16.0 GB
                                     Heads: 64   Sectors per Track: 32   Cylinders: 15269

      Name               Flags             Part Type       FS Type                    [Label]                Size (MB)
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      sdb1                                  Primary        vfat                       [ </qa>                 16010.71
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Last edited by tony5429 (2010-07-06 14:46:12)

tony5429

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Re: [S0LVED] USB Flash Drive Mounting with Weird Names

Here's the name it's given in the /media directory,

[karam@nikolai ~]$ dir /media
\t2%qa4  cd  dvd  fl

tony5429

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Re: [S0LVED] USB Flash Drive Mounting with Weird Names

Here's what it looks like in KDE,

skunktrader

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Re: [S0LVED] USB Flash Drive Mounting with Weird Names

Did you try changing the label on the flash drive to something without a / character in the name

tony5429

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Re: [S0LVED] USB Flash Drive Mounting with Weird Names

I've always left it as "No Label" I think. I will install mtools and try relabeling...

tony5429

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Re: [S0LVED] USB Flash Drive Mounting with Weird Names

Yeah...

[karam@nikolai ~]$ mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 -s ::
 Volume has no label

Do I have to have a label?

Inxsible

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Re: [S0LVED] USB Flash Drive Mounting with Weird Names

What's the name of the drive in Windows? If you have certain special characters, it boinks the linux names.

That's why I choose simple 1 word names and I try not to have spaces either, although spaces are handled by linux easily these days

EDIT : Ooh ! my 1500th post.....

Last edited by Inxsible (2010-07-06 14:45:24)

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tony5429

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Re: [S0LVED] USB Flash Drive Mounting with Weird Names

Okay; that was it Thanks all!