Re: [gentoo-user] FAT32 USB not showing/mounting

[<wabenbau@gmail.com>]

Am Montag, 15.12.2014 um 20:02
schrieb Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>:

> On 12/16/14 01:37, wabenbau@gmail.com wrote:
> >Am Sonntag, 14.12.2014 um 22:37
> >schrieb Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>:
> >
> >> 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?
> >
> >Here comes the the magic formula, IIRC ;)
> >
> >Your user has to be in group plugdev.
> 
> Done.
> 
> >udisks USE flag for xfce-base/thunar must be set.
> 
> Yes, it was.
> 
> >The USB-device may NOT have a config line in /etc/fstab.
> 
> Correct, done.
> 
> >To enable/disable automounting look at thunars menu:
> >edit -> settings -> advanced-settings -> volume-management (checkbox)
> 
> Yes, it is/was enabled.
> 
> When I insert USB stick formatted as FAT or ext3/4 the icon
> automatically appears on my desktop. When I insert USB stick

Is this the same stick?

> formatted as FAT32, nothing happens. That is what is puzzling me.
> 

That's strange. Can you mount the stick by hand?


When I insert a FAT32 Stick the following message appears in dmesg (note that
the order and content differs from your dmesg, but I don't know if this is
important:)

[49627.224307] usb 1-5: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci
[49627.349351] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=1307, idProduct=0165
[49627.349361] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[49627.349368] usb 1-5: Product: USB Mass Storage Device
[49627.349373] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: USBest Technology
[49627.349378] usb 1-5: SerialNumber: 080920097d039b
[49627.349797] usb-storage 1-5:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[49627.350022] scsi19 : usb-storage 1-5:1.0
[49628.352252] scsi 19:0:0:0: Direct-Access                               0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[49628.352829] sd 19:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg11 type 0
[49628.354004] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] 3948544 512-byte logical blocks: (2.02 GB/1.88 GiB)
[49628.354610] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] Write Protect is off
[49628.354618] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[49628.355238] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] Asking for cache data failed
[49628.355244] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] Assuming drive cache: write through
[49628.484320]  sdj: sdj1
[49628.487921] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdj] Attached SCSI removable disk



Command "p" in fdisk shows:

Disk /dev/sdj: 1,9 GiB, 2021654528 bytes, 3948544 sectors
Units: Sektoren of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000d4153

Gerät     Boot Start      Ende  Blocks  Id System
/dev/sdj1 *       63   3948543 1974240+  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


Do you also have the FS-Id set to "c"?

Regards
wabe