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#1 2013-02-20 16:59:53
- djg1971
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[SOLVED] after upgrade this morning cannot mount xfs drive
after doing pacman -Syu this morning (2/20/2013), i find that i cannot mount an external usb drive formatted with xfs anymore:
[xxxx ~]$ mount /mnt/external_1/
mount: unknown filesystem type 'xfs'
the drive is listed in /ets/fstab like so:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/external_1 xfs rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
and this has worked fine for years. anyone know what's happened?
Last edited by djg1971 (2013-02-20 22:03:07)
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#2 2013-02-20 21:29:12
- djg1971
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Re: [SOLVED] after upgrade this morning cannot mount xfs drive
by the way, if i run
lsblk -f
it not only finds the drive and lists it under the /dev/sdb tree (as sdb1), but also knows it's fs type is xfs and registers its uuid. just no mount point (obvious because it isn't mounted).
i have a feeling this is a situation where systemd is partially doing something for me that it thinks is nice, and probably is, only i don't know what it's doing so i can't quite take advantage of it and instead can't use it at all.
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#4 2013-02-20 22:02:32
- djg1971
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Re: [SOLVED] after upgrade this morning cannot mount xfs drive
well, this might be interesting to someone that understands these things a bit better than i do:
i did reboot. i also unplugged the usb cable and then plugged it back in. now i just rebooted again, and then unplugged and replugged the cable. now it mounts.
i don't get it, but i'll mark the post as solved.
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