USB stick isn't accessible Kubuntu 8.04

[frantheonlyster]

Hello,

I have an Acer Aspire 5673WLmi, I recently installed Kubuntu 8.04. However it seems that usb devices isn't accessible. I tried using my external usb driver formatted as ntfs and a 4gig flash drive formatted as fat32.

When I plug in both drives the autorun pops up. When I select open in new window. Dolphin opens up and on the bottom I get a error. The file of folder /media/PKBACK does not exist. PKBACK is the name of the USB drive.

I'm quite new to linux and don't know much about troubleshooting these types of problems.

Thank you

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Plug-in USB drive, open Konsole and execute this

sudo fdisk -l
df -h

Post output here.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[frantheonlyster]

Thanks for the reply.

However I seem to have sorted this problem out. The usb stick was named PKBACK#001 and when I changed the name to just "BACKUP". Everything went smooth. Strange maybe kubuntu can't handle the # in the file name.

[bigtomrodney]

The #/hash sign denotes a comment in many Unix scripting languages. I would imagine that it was ignoring from then on in the mount line.