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matto1990
Asked: 2010-09-09 14:02:57 +0800 CST

USB Storage Device Automount

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Under Ubuntu 10.04 one of the problems which appeared is that USB devices would no longer automatically mount when plugged in. Normally I would get a pop up message asking what application I wanted to open the newly plugged in device with, however now that doesn't happen.

This happens regardless of the way the device is formatted (NTFS or FAT32) and all other USB devices (printer, keyboard and mouse) work perfectly.

My current solution is the mount them manually using sudo mount dev/... /medai/... however to be honest I'm just getting tired of having to do this.

I'm happy to post any extra information you are likely to need. I know there will be lots of places I could look to find out what's going wrong but I have no idea where to start really.

10.04 mount usb storage

9 Answers

  1. Solved, at least for me.

    I think it is a hardware issue, because I tried a 12.04 live CD in my desktop and everything works fine. I tried at my laptop and it doesn't open the USB automatically.

    Any way the solution that I found is to install usbmount by running the command below on the terminal:

    sudo apt-get install usbmount

    Then USB mounts fine and automatically.

    More info in this page. I also installed autofs.

    Hope this works for you.

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  2. In gconf-editor, look under /apps/nautilus/preferences. There should be a setting called "media_automount". Ensure that it is checked. There is also an option called "media_automount_open" that you can set if you wish it to open the media in nautilus automatically in addition to mounting it.

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  3. Something is broken in an update I guess. Try running: 

    sudo mkdir /dbos 
sudo fdisk -l
# find your memory stick
sudo mount /dev/sdc /dbos
# now your memory stick is in /dbos
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  4. Try in Nautilus → Edit → Preferences → Media

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  5. This happened to me in xubuntu. It used to mount automatically but now it does not. My workaround was I installed an extra package called usbmount.

    sudo apt-get install usbmount

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  6. If you run (Alt+F2) "ubuntu-bug storage", your problem is the very first option. It may not be a bug, but a bug report would be the easiest way to rule that out.

    Oh and please post a link to the bug report here if you do.

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  7. It is a known issue with 10.04 if you have a floppy drive. Here is a solution:

    1. Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F2).
    2. Type: gksu gedit /etc/fstab
    3. Add a # before the line that contains fd0.
    4. Then in terminal type: rmmod floppy
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  8. It sounds like you've exhausted most normal fixes. A forced fix might come about if you go into your BIOS settings and verify that you have 'boot from removable/flash drives' set to ON.

    If it is set to OFF and you toggle it ON, perhaps booting with a non-bootable flash drive in a port, the operating system may be forced to reassign how it manages flash devices. At worst it may spit out another error that could lead you to finding out what is wrong.

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  9. USB mount only works with small drives, MY LG 500 GB didn't automount and not even with the ubuntu bug storage report... This happened with me twice... the first time I was a linux newbie and I had to format my entire disk again... and now that this happened... nothing actually works EXCEPT.. DISK UTILITY... JUST download it and go to terminal and sudo palimpsest It detects the partition, and lets u check for every kind of error there is and for the mounting issue all u gotta do is just click mount... U get a link for the mounted file and thats it... Hope this helps anyone...

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