USB not auto mounting [SOLVED]

madderhatter · 2023-05-01 13:36:41

When I plug in my usb storage device it doesn't auto mount and make it available to me. I've read that this should have been available by default if I didn't install a custom kernel. My pacstrap command was pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware. Anyways, I have also tried manually mounting my drive.

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

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seth · 2023-05-01 13:42:54

I've read that this should have been available by default if I didn't install a custom kernel.

I've read that Trump won the election - the internet is full of ridiculous shit.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Udisks#Mount_helpers
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_m … ctionality

bad superblock on /dev/sda

Unless this is a superdisk you probably wanted to mount some partition (ie. eg. "sda1")

madderhatter · 2023-05-01 13:51:34

seth wrote:

I've read that Trump won the election - the internet is full of ridiculous shit.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_storage_devices

If you have an up-to-date system with the standard Arch kernel and a modern desktop environment, your device should just show up on your desktop, with no need to open a console.

Must be the modern desktop environment I failed to comprehend here. I'm on X11, Picom, Qtile. Anyways just thought I'd share where on the internet I read that.

Thank you for the links and I understand what your saying about /dev/sda1 I'll give that a shot real quick and do some reading to see if I can get auto mounting working. I'll update shortly.

madderhatter · 2023-05-01 14:05:03

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt worked just fine

Prior to this I had already installed udisks2

Installing udiskie and running the program gave my system usb auto mount functionality.

Thank you again for pointing me in the right direction. Problem solved!

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USB not auto mounting [SOLVED]

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