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daankata

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Registered: 2017-05-21

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[Solved] USB storage devices not showing

When inserting a removable media (16GB FLASH DRIVE) the device isn't mounting and it isn't showing in the Thunar file manager. I have tried different USB Flash drives and different ports but the result is the same. I do not have a custom kernel and my kernel is up to date (4.10.13-1-ARCH). However when I check the fdisk -l output the drive is showing at /dev/sdb (Disk /dev/sdb: 14.5 GiB, 15524167680 bytes, 30320640 sectors). I tried formatting the device but still no success at openning the contents of the USB. I read the manual "USB storage devices" at the Arch Wiki and installed udisks2, restarted the computer and the USB still isn't showing. Is there a way that Arch Linux can auto-mount the USB drives as soon as there inserted?
Thank you!

Last edited by daankata (2017-05-21 21:45:15)

ewaller

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Re: [Solved] USB storage devices not showing

After you plug in the device, post the output of mount

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Re: [Solved] USB storage devices not showing

Read the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … y#Mounting

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daankata

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Re: [Solved] USB storage devices not showing

After you plug in the device, post the output of mount

After I mount /dev/sdb at /mnt/emtec this is the output:

mount: /dev/sdb is write-protected, mounting read-only

daankata

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Re: [Solved] USB storage devices not showing

Read the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … y#Mounting

Thank you it worked. I didn't noticed I hadn't installed the gvfs.

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Re: [Solved] USB storage devices not showing

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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