Auto Mount Flash Dirve

[nujinini]

Hello!

My Fedora does not auto detect a flash drive if I get to attach it with the OS already running. I still have to make a reboot and attached the drive right from the start in order for it to be detected/mounted.

Unlike In Mint 7, Ubuntu and XP, it automatically detects the flash drive as soon as it is attached.

Can somebody please help me make my Fedora detect the flash drive so that I would not have to reboot everytime I would use it.

Thanks in advance!

FWIW here are some outputs:

# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Thu Feb  4 06:06:47 2010
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info
#
UUID=2776efe4-9019-4968-9765-d53d0826b540 /                       ext3    defau$
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults	0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults	0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults	0 0
UUID=63a28b69-c8d9-417d-a61b-c4a21dbcd33b swap  swap    defaults	0 0

  GNU nano 2.0.6              File: /etc/mtab                                   

/dev/sda5 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/jun/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=jun$
/dev/sda3 /media/Storage\040Bin fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=409$
/dev/sda1 /media/XP\040Windows\040:( fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksiz$
/dev/sda8 /media/Mint\0407 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/Ubuntu\040Hybrid\0409. ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/Encrypted ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0

[reed9]

Fedora should also autodetect your flash drive.

Plug in the device and post the output of

dmesg | tail

[nujinini]

Hello reed9,

Here it is:

[jun@localhost ~]$ dmesg | tail
SELinux: initialized (dev sda6, type ext3), uses xattr
kjournald2 starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT4 FS on sda8, internal journal
EXT4-fs: delayed allocation enabled
EXT4-fs: file extents enabled
EXT4-fs: mballoc enabled
EXT4-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev sda8, type ext4), uses xattr
warning: `VirtualBox' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec
[jun@localhost ~]$

[artu]

I am aggree with reed9, it should do it default. Could you examine /var/log/messages. So this file consists of kernel messages. if there is any abnormal message generated by module, it can be the reason.

[nujinini]

Hello artu,

Checked it but there seems to be no error messages

thanks

[reed9]

The kernel doesn't seem to be registering the device when you plug it in.

dmesg should show something like

reed@reed-laptop ~ % dmesg | tail
scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     HP       v100w            PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 7827456 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 GB/3.73 GiB)
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdc: sdc1
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk

Which is my output when I plugged in a flash drive. I'm not entirely sure how to troubleshoot that.

I noticed this

warning: `VirtualBox' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)

Are you running Fedora in VirtualBox?

[artu]

I have two questions:
1- Have you upgraded your kernel. This can cause the automount problem.
2- Could you check ConsoleKit daemon which is responsible of automounting usb stick? Is it running?

/etc/init.d/ConsoleKit status

[nujinini]

Hello again guys,

I have made a fool out myself again So sorry about that

I didn't know that I was suppose to run dmesg | tail with the flash drive attached, darn!

Here are some new outputs:

[jun@localhost ~]$ dmesg | tail
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 1007616 512-byte hardware sectors (516 MB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[jun@localhost ~]$ fdisk -l
Cannot open /dev/sda
Cannot open /dev/sdb
[jun@localhost ~]$ su -
Password: 
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc5e3f820

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1930    15502693+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            1931       15817   111547327+   5  Extended
/dev/sda3           15818       29555   110350485    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4           29556       30401     6795495   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5            1931        3835    15301881   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            9778       15817    48516268+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7            3836        5224    11157111   83  Linux
/dev/sda8            5225        9777    36571941   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 515 MB, 515899392 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1968 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        1968      503792    b  W95 FAT32

My problem is, it does not show in the desktop or in the Places section where it usually opens with my othe OSes.

No, I am not running Fedora on Virtual Box, it is hosting VB however which was running when I first checked.

Thank you very much!

EDIT: I was able to mount the USB manually by:

[root@localhost ~]# mkdir /media/sda5
[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/sda5
[root@localhost ~]#

It would be great to have it automatically mount though. Thanks!

[artu]

I assume you are using gnome desktop. You can enable or disable automount feature on gnome desktop via gconftool-2 utility. If you have gnome version of 2.22. Could you try that?

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type bool --set /desktop/gnome/volume_manager/automount_media true

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type bool --set /desktop/gnome/volume_manager/automount_drives true

Or, Could you send default options of gnome as writing on terminal:

gconf-editor /system/storage/default_options &