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dboxall123

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Registered: 2014-02-01

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[SOLVED] LXDE and external hard drive

Hi all!

So yesterday, I installed LXDE. It was all working fine, and really fast too. Today, I plug in my external hard drive, and can't find it. It won't automount, despite the fact that I've set it to automount in preferences. It doesn't show up in the file manager, despite the fact that I've ticked the box for removable media to show in the file manager. This worked perfectly yesterday, but not today. WTF? When I run "lsblk -f" in a terminal, it shows me the sdb partition. Not sure what to do now though, I've searched the internet and can't find anything about this kind of issue, so now I'm here.

Thanks in advance for any advice/help given,
-Dan

Last edited by dboxall123 (2014-02-18 19:31:30)

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] LXDE and external hard drive

Can you mount it manually? What filesystem is on that drive?

dboxall123

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Re: [SOLVED] LXDE and external hard drive

I can't even find it. I used to be able to find it via /run/media/<usb_name> , but now there isn't even a /run/media directory. The filesystem is ext4.

How can this just happen suddenly? There was no problem last night, and I have changed nothing since then???

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] LXDE and external hard drive

Look in /dev e.g. /dev/sdb1.

dboxall123

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Re: [SOLVED] LXDE and external hard drive

Yeh, sdb1 is in there, but I can't mount it with "mount sdb1". Says "sdb1 not found in /etc/fstab". I don't think that I should need to follow the instructions here should I, especially considering that it worked perfectly yesterday, and what it says at the top about usb devices just showing up in desktop???

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] LXDE and external hard drive

Try specifying a mountpoint e.g. 'mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb'. If '/media/usb' doesn't exist, create it first.
I know nothing about automounting.

Last edited by karol (2014-02-18 13:15:34)

dboxall123

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Re: [SOLVED] LXDE and external hard drive

It works! Thanks Karol, finally I can get some work done. It seems really weird for this to just suddenly happen though...Meh, it's working now.

Thanks again :-)

dboxall123

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Re: [SOLVED] LXDE and external hard drive

Lol, I went out for a bit, come back and switched my computer on - it automounts again! Dunno what the hell was going on earlier lol...

2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED] LXDE and external hard drive

Did you get a kernel update when you installed LXDE, and right before the USB devices stopped automounting? This can happen if you don't reboot after a kernel update.

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2014-02-18 17:08:30)

dboxall123

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Re: [SOLVED] LXDE and external hard drive

No, there was no kernal update. I just installed lxde and edited .xinitrc. It worked last night, didn't work this morning, worked again this afternoon. Weird...