Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't this SDcard mounting?

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

> On 29 Aug 2017, at 19:15, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> This may have been mentioned already, but do you have sys-fs/udisks installed?

I did not.

> Check the output of udisksctl status/monitor/info and see what it reveals.  
> Then check if you can mount the device with udiskctl.

Having installed it I got "Error connecting to the udisks daemon: Could not connect: No such file or directory" a few times, until it occurred to me to start dbus. This may be the first time I've ever done so.

I was then able to get a status and info for the drive. 

I cannot mount the drive using `sudo mount -v /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp`, but I am able to do so using `udisksctl`:

  $ sudo udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb1                  
  Mounted /dev/sdb1 at /run/media/root/6D18-12B4.
  $

Unexpectedly I find 10MB of files on the device - the same size as the loopback device which previously claimed to be mounted (and 6MB less than the files I had intended to copy to it).

No /dev/sdb1 has been created.

There are aspects of this I still don't understand, but I am grateful to everyone who has provided their time.

Stroller.