Arch Linux

fuscia

Member

Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

trouble mounting camera

i put this in /etc/fstab...

/dev/sdb1       /home/fuscia/camera        vfat        user,noauto,exec 0       0

when i do mount camera, i get this response mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist. sure enough, there is no /dev/sdb1. (i think i got this line from my last ubuntu installation.) so, can i just do a mkdir /dev/sdb1, or should i use something else, or is it not as simple as all that?

fwojciec

Member

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: trouble mounting camera

Plug in your camera and do "fdisk -l" as root -- this will list all the available partitions, including your camera.  That way you can check if Arch recognizes your camera as /dev/sdb1 or something else.

fuscia

Member

Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: trouble mounting camera

Plug in your camera and do "fdisk -l" as root -- this will list all the available partitions, including your camera.  That way you can check if Arch recognizes your camera as /dev/sdb1 or something else.

this is what i got...

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00076b51

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1           5       40162   83  Linux
/dev/sda2               6          38      265072+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3              39         995     7687102+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4             996        9729    70155855   83  Linux

fwojciec

Member

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: trouble mounting camera

Sorry, no idea...  It looks like your system doesn't recognize your camera as a mountable disk drive.

finferflu

Forum Fellow

From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

Posts: 1,899

Website

Re: trouble mounting camera

You can check whether it's recognised, by plugging it in, and then out, then

dmesg | tail

---

Have you Syued today?
Free music for free people! | Earthlings

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- A. de Saint-Exupery

fuscia

Member

Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: trouble mounting camera

You can check whether it's recognised, by plugging it in, and then out, then

dmesg | tail

ok, that got this...

ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 3
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 4

fuscia

Member

Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: trouble mounting camera

now, it works. i have no idea why. it worked fine when i used xfs and then reiser. i just reinstalled with jfs, so is there something odd about jfs, or is it, god forbid, user retarda... uh, error?

Last edited by fuscia (2008-10-11 18:25:49)