Re: Can't access USB thumbdrives

At Sat,  6 Jun 2026 16:32:38 -0400 (EDT) Robert Heller <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Do you have a disk mounter thingy in your panel?  Can you mount them that way?

If you are using the Mate desktop, you probably have mate-applets installed 
and that should give you an applet named diskmount, which you can add to your 
panel. And it should let you mount thrumb drives with it.


> 
> It *sounds* like your system has stopped *auto* mounting the thumbdrives.
> 
> One other possibility: the thumbdrives are not FAT32, but are exFat or NTFS
> and you don't have the FS infrasture needed installed (or something like
> that).  Are these *large* thumbdrives (>= 64Gig)?
> 
> At Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:38:36 +0100 Chris Ramsden <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Asus Zenbook
> > Debian 13 Trixie
> > Mate DE
> >
> > I have just noticed that this computer has stopped recognising USB
> > thumbdrives. 
> >
> > They are listed in lsusb, but do not appear in my file browser (caja),
> > nor in df. 
> >
> > The same machine sees the same USB thumbdrives when booted into
> > windows, so it appears not to be faulty hardware. 
> >
> > I can't say when this started happening; I haven't plugged in any USB
> > thumbdrives for a few weeks. 
> >
> > Despite all this the machine boots from an external USB-connected SSD.
> > It's using wired ethernet via a Startech multi function USB hub, so
> > it's obvious that the USB is largely working. I have tried connecting
> > the thumbdrives directly into the computer's USB ports (i.e. not via
> > external USB hubs) and no change. 
> >
> > Any suggestions? Any other info required?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> 
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