Usb won't mount[solved]

[Gankfest]

I get this error when I try to mount my usbstick:

mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

dmesg | grep USB

drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB SD Reader 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 2:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic USB CF Reader 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 2:0:0:2: Direct-Access Generic USB SM Reader 1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 2:0:0:3: Direct-Access Generic USB MS Reader 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

lspci:

0:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])

lsusb:
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 058f:9360 Alcor Micro Corp.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 043d:0096 Lexmark International, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0781:5151 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 256/512MB Flash Drive

the only thing is the card is a 2g not 512mb

all the kernel arguments are loaded correctly I checked like 4-5 times. If any additional information is needed let me know and I'll post it. I really need this to work because I hate shitdows, but I need a usb stick for school. Thanx!

[dusik]

What if it's not /dev/sda? See what ls /dev/sd* says.

Also, why not use automount via sys-apps/hal and sys-apps/ivman?

[PaulBredbury]

It's not necessarily sda. Try for starters:

Code: Select all

find /dev -name sd\*

[Gankfest]

kool it mounted on /dev/sde1, but it won't read it probably because it is in windows format which I can figure out. Thanx for the find /dev -name sd\* great tool.

[dusik]

Which file system - FAT32 or NTFS?

[Gankfest]

Which file system - FAT32 or NTFS?

NTFS

[holytrousers]

well even if its NTFS, you should be able to read it, or even write to it (if you configure your kernel properly)
A propos, it is strange that it is possible to have write access to a proprietary file system like the ntfs in an open source project, but no write access to ext2fs on windows (i found fs-driver.org that has write access, but its not gpl), or reiserfs (the only driver i found breaks the windows every time i try to access a file)
Maybe i will switch to ext2

[dusik]

Ok, all you need for NTFS read/write support is to install ntfs3g. Just follow the instructions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTFS_write_with_ntfs-3g

It's really matured and quite safe to use nowadays.

Aside from that, I'd also suggest installing sys-apps/ivman -- then your usb stick should be automagically mounted whenever you plug it in.

[Gankfest]

Ok, all you need for NTFS read/write support is to install ntfs3g. Just follow the instructions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTFS_write_with_ntfs-3g

It's really matured and quite safe to use nowadays.

Aside from that, I'd also suggest installing sys-apps/ivman -- then your usb stick should be automagically mounted whenever you plug it in.

ok have them both installed and I followed the guide and inserted this after the emerge:

# ln -s /usr/bin/ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs

it works fine besides it dosn't automount I cp a doc from my box to my roommates shitbox no problme but

the thing is it changes mount points everytime I plug it in (for ex. it was /dev/sde1 /mnt/usb now it's /dev/sdf1 /mnt/usb) is their a way to make it keep one mount point every time I plug it in and how would I add it to fstab so I can click an icon and do it that way. Thanx

[PaulBredbury]

Write a udev rule for it.

[Gankfest]

ok I just want to mek sure this is correct I have:

udev rule

SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/mount-device.sh /dev/%k"

script:

#!/bin/sh

DEVICE="$1"
GID=`grep plugdev /etc/group | cut -d: -f 3`

if [ "$DEVICE" = "" ] ; then exit 1 ; fi

# wait a moment till' hal has information about the device
sleep 2

HAL_UDI=`hal-find-by-property --key block.device --string "$DEVICE"`

function get_hal_label {
CUR_UDI=$1
LABEL=""
COUNTER=0;
while [ -z "$LABEL" -a $COUNTER -lt 4 ]; do
LABEL=`hal-get-property --key volume.label --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
if [ -z "$LABEL" ]; then
LABEL=`hal-get-property --key storage.serial --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
fi
CUR_UDI=`hal-get-property --key info.parent --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
done

if [ -z $LABEL ]; then
LABEL=${DEVICE##/dev/}
fi
}

function get_hal_removable {
CUR_UDI=$1
REMOVABLE=""
COUNTER=0
while [ -z "$REMOVABLE" -a $COUNTER -lt 4 ]; do
REMOVABLE=`hal-get-property --key storage.removable --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
if [ -z "$REMOVABLE" ]; then
BUS=`hal-get-property --key storage.bus --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
if [ "$BUS" = "usb" ]; then
REMOVABLE="true"
fi
fi
CUR_UDI=`hal-get-property --key info.parent --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
done

if [ -z "$REMOVABLE" ]; then
logger "assuming $HAL_UDI is removable for safety reasons"
REMOVABLE="true"
fi
}

if [ -z "$HAL_UDI" ]; then # can't find device in hal db
logger "hald didn't know about $DEVICE"
LABEL=${DEVICE##/dev/}
else # device found in hal db.
get_hal_label "$HAL_UDI"
get_hal_removable "$HAL_UDI"
fi

logger "Mounting HAL_UDI $HAL_UDI as $DEVICE to $LABEL (removable: $REMOVABLE)"

SYNC_OPT=""

if [ $REMOVABLE = "true" ]; then
SYNC_OPT="--sync"
fi

pmount --umask 007 $SYNC_OPT "$DEVICE" "$LABEL"

# if you do not want to use pmount (why should you?)
#MOUNTPOINT=/media/${LABEL}
#mkdir -p "$MOUNTPOINT" &&
#touch "$MOUNTPOINT"/.created_by_pmount &&
#mount "$DEVICE" "$MOUNTPOINT" -o gid=$GID,umask=007 ||
#rm "$MOUNTPOINT"/.created_by_pmount &&
#rmdir "$MOUNTPOINT"

fstab:

/dev/sde1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user 0 0

now when I click on the icon in system:/media it doesn't mount the device on /dev/sde1 /mnt/usb, so how can I fix it so it doe's. Thanx!

[PaulBredbury]

A udev rule is 1 line, not 100. There's dozens if not hundreds of previous threads about it.

[Gankfest]

A udev rule is 1 line, not 100. There's dozens if not hundreds of previous threads about it.

The udev rule is one line here:

SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/mount-device.sh /dev/%k"

the script to run it I guess is this:

#!/bin/sh

DEVICE="$1"
GID=`grep plugdev /etc/group | cut -d: -f 3`

if [ "$DEVICE" = "" ] ; then exit 1 ; fi

# wait a moment till' hal has information about the device
sleep 2

HAL_UDI=`hal-find-by-property --key block.device --string "$DEVICE"`

function get_hal_label {
CUR_UDI=$1
LABEL=""
COUNTER=0;
while [ -z "$LABEL" -a $COUNTER -lt 4 ]; do
LABEL=`hal-get-property --key volume.label --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
if [ -z "$LABEL" ]; then
LABEL=`hal-get-property --key storage.serial --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
fi
CUR_UDI=`hal-get-property --key info.parent --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
done

if [ -z $LABEL ]; then
LABEL=${DEVICE##/dev/}
fi
}

function get_hal_removable {
CUR_UDI=$1
REMOVABLE=""
COUNTER=0
while [ -z "$REMOVABLE" -a $COUNTER -lt 4 ]; do
REMOVABLE=`hal-get-property --key storage.removable --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
if [ -z "$REMOVABLE" ]; then
BUS=`hal-get-property --key storage.bus --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
if [ "$BUS" = "usb" ]; then
REMOVABLE="true"
fi
fi
CUR_UDI=`hal-get-property --key info.parent --udi "$CUR_UDI" 2>/dev/null`
let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
done

if [ -z "$REMOVABLE" ]; then
logger "assuming $HAL_UDI is removable for safety reasons"
REMOVABLE="true"
fi
}

if [ -z "$HAL_UDI" ]; then # can't find device in hal db
logger "hald didn't know about $DEVICE"
LABEL=${DEVICE##/dev/}
else # device found in hal db.
get_hal_label "$HAL_UDI"
get_hal_removable "$HAL_UDI"
fi

logger "Mounting HAL_UDI $HAL_UDI as $DEVICE to $LABEL (removable: $REMOVABLE)"

SYNC_OPT=""

if [ $REMOVABLE = "true" ]; then
SYNC_OPT="--sync"
fi

pmount --umask 007 $SYNC_OPT "$DEVICE" "$LABEL"

# if you do not want to use pmount (why should you?)
#MOUNTPOINT=/media/${LABEL}
#mkdir -p "$MOUNTPOINT" &&
#touch "$MOUNTPOINT"/.created_by_pmount &&
#mount "$DEVICE" "$MOUNTPOINT" -o gid=$GID,umask=007 ||
#rm "$MOUNTPOINT"/.created_by_pmount &&
#rmdir "$MOUNTPOINT"

coming from this guide here:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/UDEV

I just want to make sure it's correct in the fact that every time I plug my usbstick it it gets the same mount point so I can stick it in fstab and have an icon in system:/media. Now the icon that is their now doesn't work so I was wondering if someone knew if my fstab is correct in loading the usbstick which is here:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
/dev/sde1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user 0 0

[Gankfest]

I magically fixed it some how idk and don't care. tootles!

[purpler]

i have this crapy problem too,i tred ivman and it somehow mount device but not always i plug it in..
im sure that kernel is ok because automounting worked once but wont now..
is there any "automount holy grail" available?

[artbody]

earlier versions of udev i solved this way
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
but
since the new version of udev
the udevrules create a few symlinks for most usb devices
so i solved this problem that way

example is a harddisk
/etc/fstab
....
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3320620AS_3QF08LR2-part1 /mnt/ext_disc1 .......

works fine

[purpler]

why is it so f****** hard to do such stupid thing as a usb stick and cdrom automounting?
i tried bunch of things and im getting tired of this crap allready..


::28.08.2007 edit::
it seems latest sync and emerge -NDuva world pull in new udev-115 which apperently solved the problem, usb stick and cdrom was mounted on predefined entries on fstab almost instantly so i guess i finished latest problem i had with gentoo..
thnxx all for helping out and long live gentoo