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    Cannot mount usb

    I have installed Lubuntu 11.04 in a friend's older machine and am currently doing some testings.

    When I plug in an usb drive or external drive it shows up on the left panel of the file manager but somehow I can't mount them by clicking, or more exactly, there is no guarantee, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't .

    I have a multiple partition external drive, when I plug it in all the partitions show up on the left panel on the file manager, but most of them wont mount most of the time except for a ntfs partition (the rest are all ext4).

    Now I have installed Compiz and I am wondering if it has anything to do with allowing Compiz to manage the desktop (The computer is old, but with Lubuntu it is light enough to run Compiz on top and still lighting fast, OOTB Lubuntu is just too ugly )

    P.S Also short cuts like alt+f2, ctr+alt+t don't work.

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    Re: Cannot mount usb

    I think installing compiz will have stopped those keyboard shortcuts from working, and you may need to change settings with CCSM to get them going again.

    Even in gnome the Alt+F2 shortcut will not work if compiz is the WM, unless you set the shortcut in the Gnome Compatibility. Unfortunately I don't know how you do the same in LXDE, but you could try setting those in the Command tab of that plugin, if it is present, and see if it works.

    I also have a problem sometimes with mounting usb flash drives on an old laptop, but mine is definitely a hardware problem as the drives are not recognised at all by the system; even dmesg does not respond in any way. I think your problem is the ext4 filesystem needing appropriate permissions to mount the partition as user; I expect you can mount them as root if you try. If you label those ext4 partitions with tune2fs commands
    Code:
    sudo tune2fs -L <labelname> /dev/sdx#
    they will always mount to /media/label, with those labels as the folder name and you can then set ownership as needed for those folders with
    Code:
    sudo chown user:user /media/label
    and permissions if you need to with
    Code:
    sudo chmod 7xx /media/label
    choosing the 7xx as you want. The deafult for /home in Ubuntu is 755, so that may be the most appropriate for that folder as well.
    Last edited by ajgreeny; October 26th, 2011 at 08:15 PM.

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    Re: Cannot mount usb

    It is not a hardware problem, it boots from usb. Also, I can mount usb on the same machine automatically with Ubuntu (also 11.04).

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    Re: Cannot mount usb

    Need to do some search and see what's the problem in your case

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    Re: Cannot mount usb

    Thanks, my friend.

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    Re: Cannot mount usb

    Those guys are supposed to mount automatically. Are you saying that they are showing up in the left hand column and are not mounted or some are not showing up in the left hand column? By the way, what kind of machine did you install Lubuntu 11.04.

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    Re: Cannot mount usb

    Quote Originally Posted by beew View Post
    Thanks, my friend.
    You most welcome

    By the way, next time, PM me the link of your thread

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