USB Device Not Showing Up

jrabbit12 · 2013-11-11 23:54:06

Hello,

I have been using Arch for about a week and yesterday I re-installed Arch along with Windows 7 and dual booted using GRUB. Now, whenever I attempt to use a USB storage device (external HD and flash-drive) nothing shows up in either Thunar or the desktop. dmesg shows the device, and upon trying to manually mount I get the following error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error

In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so.

I find this strange considering these worked before my reinstall, and everything was done the same way. I get this same error on the flash-drives and the external HD. The only change I have made in my installation is I am now using SLiM and the xinitrc file as a graphical login instead of logging in through the command line and executing startx.

If any of you think it would be worth a shot to revert to this old method of logging in I would be willing to try it out and then maybe find another login manager but I would need some clarification on exactly how to uninstall SLiM without screwing up other stuff. This is really bothering me and yes I made sure the version numbers in uname -a and pacman match, rebooted multiple times, etc. If anyone could help me out I would appreciate it.

Trilby · 2013-11-11 23:57:21

Mount says "wrong fs type", so what is the fs type?

(edit: well that was a creative typo ... a talking mouse)

Last edited by Trilby (2013-11-12 00:57:01)

jrabbit12 · 2013-11-12 00:02:01

Trilby wrote:

Mouse says "wrong fs type", so what is the fs type?

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 490223474 245111706 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

I assume that means FAT32 which I understand to be the typical USB storage device FS type.

HiImTye · 2013-11-12 00:14:56

make sure you're mounting sdb1 and not sdb

jrabbit12 · 2013-11-12 00:29:18

HiImTye wrote:

make sure you're mounting sdb1 and not sdb

Well well well, this worked. Thanks for that and I will for sure keep doing that. But I won't mark this as solved yet because I am still looking for someone to tell me why it isn't automounting like it previously way. Thanks for your help guys, for a small community you sure do respond quickly and provide help. Thanks.

HiImTye · 2013-11-12 00:34:00

did you install gvfs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/th … tomounting

jasonwryan · 2013-11-12 00:37:00

jrabbit12 wrote:

HiImTye wrote:
make sure you're mounting sdb1 and not sdb
I am still looking for someone to tell me why it isn't automounting like it previously way.

You haven't said what DE/WM you are using. If you are not using Gnome/KDE, then you will probably need to read the wiki page and set it up yourself.

jrabbit12 · 2013-11-12 03:24:44

So I guess that you have to reboot after installing gvfs for it to take effect, so the flashdrive and ext. HD are showing up but a part of my hard-drive that I have dual-booted Windows onto is also present on my desktop and in Thunar. I can't seem to get rid of that from the desktop or Thunar so is there any quick way? It's really not a huge issue but it kind of annoys me and serves no purpose.

Thanks guys.

Last edited by jrabbit12 (2013-11-12 03:32:35)

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USB Device Not Showing Up

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