A little while ago, I tried to install Google Earth. It told me there was a file conflict so I forced it. Then, I decided I didn't want it and uninstalled it. Now, my external USB hard disk isn't mounting and I can't make it mount at all.
It used to be I'd leave it plugged in and it would show up on my desktop in an unmounted state. I'd click it and it would mount. Now, it's nowhere to be found.
Did I just really screw up or is this reversable?
Thanks! Anthony
On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Anthony wrote:
A little while ago, I tried to install Google Earth. It told me there was a file conflict so I forced it. Then, I decided I didn't want it and uninstalled it. Now, my external USB hard disk isn't mounting and I can't make it mount at all.
It used to be I'd leave it plugged in and it would show up on my desktop in an unmounted state. I'd click it and it would mount. Now, it's nowhere to be found.
Did I just really screw up or is this reversable?
Thanks! Anthony
This kind of thing has happened to me rarely, both on Fedora and Debian-based systems. *Almost* always, it's a permissions thing.
Watch your logs as you plug in your usb drive. Was it recognized? Is there something there saying that sdb (or c or d or whatever) was seen, and that there's a /dev/sdb1 or whatever?
If so, try to mount in manually as root. Did that work?
If it did, then your problem is almost certainly a permissions issue.
billo
On 06/01/2013 08:35 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:
This kind of thing has happened to me rarely, both on Fedora and Debian-based systems. *Almost* always, it's a permissions thing.
Watch your logs as you plug in your usb drive. Was it recognized? Is there something there saying that sdb (or c or d or whatever) was seen, and that there's a /dev/sdb1 or whatever?
Thank you Bill! I plugged in the drive and then did a lsusb. The drive is not listed there at all (and I believe it used to be). Could it be that this drive has just died on me or am I not looking in the right place? I also looked at dmesg and saw nothing. I'm not great with logs so I probably am looking at the wrong logs.
Anthony
Anthony wrote:
A little while ago, I tried to install Google Earth. It told me there was a file conflict so I forced it. Then, I decided I didn't want it and uninstalled it. Now, my external USB hard disk isn't mounting and I can't make it mount at all.
You could try:
yum reinstall filesystem
(it's the filesystem pkg google earth rpm has conflicts with)
-- rex
On 06/01/2013 10:00 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Anthony wrote:
A little while ago, I tried to install Google Earth. It told me there was a file conflict so I forced it. Then, I decided I didn't want it and uninstalled it. Now, my external USB hard disk isn't mounting and I can't make it mount at all.
You could try:
yum reinstall filesystem
Thanks Rex. Did that and it didn't bring my drive back (even after a restart). It used to be that I had a directory structure of
/run/media/anthony/Storage
Now. the entire directory structure is gone. Well, /run is there but no /media or anything below.
I wonder if this drive just bit it.
Anthony
On 06/01/2013 10:00 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Anthony wrote:
A little while ago, I tried to install Google Earth. It told me there was a file conflict so I forced it. Then, I decided I didn't want it and uninstalled it. Now, my external USB hard disk isn't mounting and I can't make it mount at all.
You could try:
yum reinstall filesystem
(it's the filesystem pkg google earth rpm has conflicts with)
Never mind. Just uplugged and replugged the drive and it showed up again. Thanks!!
Anthony
What happens if you do this:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null count=100 bs=131072
Do you get errors? If not, your file system may be wiped out. If so, the disk is likely dead.
If the dd worked then it's time to see if you can figure out if the filesystem is corrupted or the partition bytes messed up.
{^_^}
On 2013/06/01 20:58, Anthony wrote:
On 06/01/2013 10:00 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Anthony wrote:
A little while ago, I tried to install Google Earth. It told me there was a file conflict so I forced it. Then, I decided I didn't want it and uninstalled it. Now, my external USB hard disk isn't mounting and I can't make it mount at all.
You could try:
yum reinstall filesystem
Thanks Rex. Did that and it didn't bring my drive back (even after a restart). It used to be that I had a directory structure of
/run/media/anthony/Storage
Now. the entire directory structure is gone. Well, /run is there but no /media or anything below.
I wonder if this drive just bit it.
Anthony
On 06/02/2013 12:06 AM, Anthony wrote:
On 06/01/2013 10:00 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Anthony wrote:
A little while ago, I tried to install Google Earth. It told me there was a file conflict so I forced it. Then, I decided I didn't want it and uninstalled it. Now, my external USB hard disk isn't mounting and I can't make it mount at all.
You could try:
yum reinstall filesystem
(it's the filesystem pkg google earth rpm has conflicts with)
Never mind. Just uplugged and replugged the drive and it showed up again. Thanks!!
Anthony
Hey Anthony,
Could you state clearly what you did to resolve this issue?
Did you "yum reinstall filesystem"?
Did you just unplug the drive and then plug it back in again?
Did you do both?
Did you do something else?
It would be good if you put (SOLVED) on the end of the subject line so that those who later search the mail archive can more easily find the solution.
On 06/02/2013 11:30 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
On 06/02/2013 12:06 AM, Anthony wrote:
On 06/01/2013 10:00 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Anthony wrote:
A little while ago, I tried to install Google Earth. It told me there was a file conflict so I forced it. Then, I decided I didn't want it and uninstalled it. Now, my external USB hard disk isn't mounting and I can't make it mount at all.
You could try:
yum reinstall filesystem
(it's the filesystem pkg google earth rpm has conflicts with)
Never mind. Just uplugged and replugged the drive and it showed up again. Thanks!!
Anthony
Hey Anthony,
Could you state clearly what you did to resolve this issue?
Did you "yum reinstall filesystem"?
Sorry about that! In my excitement I didn't exactly give a lot of details on how this got resolved.
I did a "yum reinstall filesystem" then physically disconnected the drive and connected it again. That did not work. So I restarted the system and again physically disconnected and reconnected the drive. Then, my drive showed up and mounted properly. It has been working fine ever sense.
It would be good if you put (SOLVED) on the end of the subject line so that those who later search the mail archive can more easily find the solution.
Good point. Done on this email :-)
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