From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FAD61389E2 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB6D2E09BF; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:54:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail144c7.megamailservers.com (mail774.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.84]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3B31E09A1 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:54:26 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin@sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail144c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id sBFNsNP3029668 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:54:25 -0500 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B3078200207; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:54:23 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:54:23 -0700 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FAT32 USB not showing/mounting Message-ID: <20141215235423.GA25450@syscon7> References: <20141215053758.GA29065@syscon7> <20141215091939.11f856b6@digimed.co.uk> <20141215133328.GB29065@syscon7> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A010202.548F74B1.04EB,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=fuzlOjIf c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=SDcUNfBxAAAA:8 a=BDKbP5mgAAAA:8 a=Unq3plm5DvEA:10 a=M1kyBYkWWGkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=A92cGCtB03wA:10 a=7mOBRU54AAAA:8 a=dTebTeGlODHM0pe2vnEA:9 a=j3g1xUW6Wo7Whw6Y:21 a=s6N_nQ0IHmXdCeLg:21 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=LyC8W49-EKgA:10 X-Origin-Country: CA X-Archives-Salt: 0e8fc9bb-f09c-4ebb-8603-32521c43f52e X-Archives-Hash: 478b62015f330dda19e7789d13ea64c3 On 12/15/14 18:17, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Joseph <[1]syscon780@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12/15/14 09:19, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:37:58 -0700, Joseph wrote: > > I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the > disk > it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? > > Which desktop are you using? Does it have an auto-mounter installed > by > default? > -- > Neil Bothwick > Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live > > I'm using XFCE4 and everytime I insert a USB with FAT or ext2/3/4 > the icon pops up on a desktop but I mount them manually. > -- > Joseph > >  > I remember asking on this list for instructions on how to auto-mount > removable drives some time ago as well. > Here's a copy of the rely I got. Hope this helps. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > From: Samuli Suominen <[2]ssuominen@gentoo.org> > Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:21 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives > To: [3]gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > xfce-base/thunar needs to have USE="udev" enabled and > xfce-extra/thunar-volman must be installed > i don't see thunar-volman in your list there > futhermore authorization from polkit/consolekit must be working, so you > must see 'active = TRUE' line when you run `ck-list-sessions` in your > Xfce's Terminal as a normal user, see this thread (first post of it): > [4]http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html > and like said, xfce4-mount-plugin is irrelevant, and `mount` command > shouldn't be used at all for udisks maintained removable devices, > instead `udisksctl mount` should be used as a normal user if you really > want to mount from commandline I'm not after auto mounting, I just want the USB icon to appear on XFCE desktop when I insert USB stick. I mount them USB by right clicking on the icon and select "mount" But for some reason or another the FAT32 is not showing up. -- Joseph