Description of problem: Insert flash drive, (sandisk) automount functions and I have access. Isert a formatted hard disk as external drive,(formatted ext3) and drive fails to be mounted. automount works with both and fc6. tried it with current kernel vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.3104.fc7 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): autorun-3.20-1.1 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 154234 [details] copy of dmesg. copy of dmesg. Refer to tail end about not recognizing the partition type for the usb hard disk.
My original problem was that I could plug my external hard drive to usb port using FC7 system so that I could read/write data to it, but the drive was not mounted. I could not mount it at all. But this drive worked just fine with FC6. ============= I tried, with fc6 to reformat the drive, and the drive was read/writable with fc6, but not FC7. But I did succeed. Here is the work around to fix the problem. Perhaps step1 is not required. While the disk cannot be auto-mounted, both logical volume manager (lvm) and gparted can see it when either program is executed from FC7 test4. step1: Boot fc7 test4. Use logical volume manager (lvm) to initialize the partition. (I get to see 232gig out of 250 and it removed a gparted error message about a corrupt partition), step2: Using FC7 Gparted fc7 version, create the dos default label and then format the hard disk selecting ext3. The disk is now mountable on FC7 and FC6. and I can read/write using either operating linux. NOTE. Gparted from FC6 will not allow FC7 automount program to mount this disk if step2 was done with GPARTED executing on FC6 my experience is that it will not work. Should this bug be transfered to gparted support? I would hope that there should be no difference in the execution of the fc6 and fc7 versions. Is the bug in the FC7 Automount code?
Here is the results of further testing. (live use). When files are added to the /media/disk via a boot from fc6, the disk will eventually not be recognized by fc6 automount. Ergo, there is no way to transfer files between fc6 and fc7, but the reverse is true. In my view, this is a show stopper for FC7, One cannot backup a drive onto a USB hard disk suitably formatted and labeled.
dupe of bug #238385 ??
Since I no longer have a problem.... what is the indication to mark....