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administration/configuration editor/apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount and make sure there is a tick in the checkbox.

The box was already checked.

I thought that was going to do it. What a mystery this is.

viking777 if you don't use auto-mount how do you mount your thumb drives and external hard drives?

Through the terminal as root? I cannot use the mount command unless I am root.

Main menu > System > Preferences > Removable media > /Storage\ tab > [X] Mount removable media when inserted.

 

Yves.

That almost worked.

There is no Storage tab though. It only has Cameras, PDAs, Printers & Scanners and Input Devices.

Is there a way to do the same thing through the terminal?

Does anybody have a solution to this mounting problem?

I am using gnome.

You are correct my USB drive is attached at sdc1. I have to use the terminal to mount it and I have to be root to do that.

That causes problems for copying and moving files for my regular user.

OK here is the output of dmesg | grep -i usb | tail -n 20; dmesg | grep -i scsi | tail -n 10

[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | grep -i usb | tail -n 20; dmesg | grep -i scsi | tail -n 10
usb 1-8: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb 1-8: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5406
usb 1-8: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-8: Product: U3 Cruzer Micro
usb 1-8: Manufacturer: SanDisk Corporation
usb 1-8: SerialNumber: 0000184AA473495B
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb-storage: device scan complete
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access	 SanDisk  U3 Cruzer Micro  4.04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
scsi 3:0:0:1: CD-ROM			SanDisk  U3 Cruzer Micro  4.04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/40x writer xa/form2 cdda tray
sr 3:0:0:1: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
sr 3:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5

Thanks for the input guys.

I am using Mandriva Linux One 2009.

I'm not really confortable sharing the output of

dmesg | tail -n 20

It has my IP and MAC addresses in it.

I just started using Mandriva. It works well on my computer.

The only problem I have right now it I can't get it to auto mount my USB storage devices.

I have USB thumb drives and an external hard drive.

I looked at the /etc/fstab file but it doesn't make sense to me (I'm used to Fedora).

# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=41ef3912-5cca-4cc2-9284-9c2c911e3f5b / ext3 defaults 1 1
# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=b0b3ac45-6cee-4dc6-82ea-2f41a1e62e32 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=7fed3a51-d19d-4eb5-aaee-d117936315d7 swap swap defaults 0 0

I don't know how to set this up. Please help.