[gentoo-user] thubdrive mounts with strange char's in it's name

[gentoo-user] thubdrive mounts with strange char's in it's name

[Alan Warren]

Hello,

My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting
with strange characters in it's name. 

I'm using pcmanfm inside of awesome wm. I have the latest stable
xorg-server compiled with udev. My thumbdrive mounts as /media/\x0e

I can't copy+paste the symbols (although I tried, but mutt/vim doesn't
show them). It's difficult to explain, but it looks like the characters 
000E inside of a 1 pixel stroke square box. inside the terminal it 
appears as a question mark. ie. /media/?

I've tried to write a udev rule to combat this, but to no avail. These
are the rules I've tried. The drive is /dev/sdf1, and it's
product is "Cruzer Titanium+"

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?1", NAME="usb/flashdisk",  SYMLINK="usb%k"

I've also tried this.
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]1", ATTRS{product}=="Cruzer Titanium+", 
NAME="usb/flashdisk", SYMLINK="%k"

 I found it very difficult to research the proper syntax for udev. A lot 
of the examples on the net are outdated. 

Any advice or pointers would be most appreciated. 

Thanks for your time,
Alan

[gentoo-user] Re: thubdrive mounts with strange char's in it's name

[walt]

On 01/30/2011 02:36 PM, Alan Warren wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting
> with strange characters in it's name.
> My thumbdrive mounts as /media/\x0e

I can offer an observation but not an answer.  Your email client, mutt,
is sending "quoted-printable" text, so I'm not sure I'm reading the same
thing that you are writing.

For example, your last line, above, looks to me like this when I view your
post in raw ascii:

'My thumbdrive mounts as /media/=0E'

That =HH is typical of "quoted-printable" encoding:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable

Maybe someone else can tell us if this has any relation to your problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thubdrive mounts with strange char's in it's name

[Alan Warren]

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Thanks for the info. I'm going to look into it.

Just to illustrate a little better, this is what it looks like.
http://www.alan-warren.com/images/strange_chars.jpg

Thanks

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:32 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/30/2011 02:36 PM, Alan Warren wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting
>> with strange characters in it's name.
>> My thumbdrive mounts as /media/
>>
>
> I can offer an observation but not an answer.  Your email client, mutt,
> is sending "quoted-printable" text, so I'm not sure I'm reading the same
> thing that you are writing.
>
> For example, your last line, above, looks to me like this when I view your
> post in raw ascii:
>
> 'My thumbdrive mounts as /media/=0E'
>
> That =HH is typical of "quoted-printable" encoding:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable
>
> Maybe someone else can tell us if this has any relation to your problem?
>
>
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] thubdrive mounts with strange char's in it's name

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Alan Warren <bluemoonshine@gmail.com> wrote:
> My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting
> with strange characters in it's name.

I believe most auto-mounters use the file system label when naming
mount points. You can view or modify this with the tools appropriate
for the specific file system.

For FAT, use dosfslabel from the sys-fs/dosfstools package.

For ext{2,3,4}, use "tune2fs -L" from the sys-fs/e2fsprogs package.

I'm guessing that something messed up the label.

Re: [gentoo-user] thubdrive mounts with strange char's in it's name

[Alan Warren]

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Thanks Mike, this is exactly what I needed.  I'm all set now.

-Alan

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppymaster@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Alan Warren <bluemoonshine@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting
> > with strange characters in it's name.
>
> I believe most auto-mounters use the file system label when naming
> mount points. You can view or modify this with the tools appropriate
> for the specific file system.
>
> For FAT, use dosfslabel from the sys-fs/dosfstools package.
>
> For ext{2,3,4}, use "tune2fs -L" from the sys-fs/e2fsprogs package.
>
> I'm guessing that something messed up the label.
>
>

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