Re: New applet for removable media

Tony Houghton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:59:51 +0100
Mark Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tony Houghton wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:16:04 +0100
> > Mark Williams<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >
> >> Okie doakie. I believe it's sdf
> >>
> >> I've attached the test output
> >
> > DeviceKit seems to think it doesn't contain any partitions or a
> > filesystem at the top level. Can you mount it with
> > "devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdf"? Is it recognised by anything else eg
> > DevTray or GNOME?
> >
> Here's what I get with devkit etc
> 
> devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdf
> Mount failed: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 32: mount: 
> /dev/sdf is not a valid block device
> 
> And it doesn't mount with DevTray either

Is there anything it does work with, eg GNOME, Windows? It's behaving as
if it isn't formatted and it doesn't seem to contain a partition table
either. Some devices are supposed to have a FS at the top-level, but
it's more usual to have a partition table with one partition taking up
all the space.

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TH * http://www.realh.co.uk

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