How could i mount the usb image drive at the desktop?
i'm using Lion and since my new computer has arrived I got a little disapointed! First, and at least for me the more awful issue, the image of a pluged usb drive DO NOT appear at desktop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how could that happen? it was a very usefull treat! my hope is my ignorance: i think i'm not dealing properly with my new computer, i really hope there is a hidden way to activate that!
second: why **** the quickplayer DO NOT recognise subtitles? every time i try to watch a movie with subtitle the quicktime closes and the quicktime 7 opens!
third: why activity monitor DO NOT show the right disk free space? even erasing huge files the available free space is frozen! do not increase!
sorry for my english mistakes!
Thanks for the reply. I was able to save the data on the Macbook Air whose HD got corrupted by using File Sharing (ethernet connecting two Macbook Airs).
I am also going to make a disk image of the HD using Disk Utility and mount that Disk Image onto an external hard drive. That way I can save the hard drive contents.
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I eagerly await your responses.Some PCI-slot Drive Controller cards report to the System they are SCSI Controllers to be able to use the more mature and flexible SCSI drivers with "Logical Block Addressing" instead of the older "Track-Head-Sector" addressing. Track-Head-Sector has not worked for so long the drives are all faking that they have 32 or 64 heads, even in drives only 9 mm tall.
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Morgan SmithOk, Lots of different advice here, let's see if I can explain it all together, and clear up a few bits...
I'll try to explain why I'm saying what I am, it doesn't matter if you don't follow it all, commands are below.
You are on the right lines here, but a few things missing. Firstly, to mount the USB stick you are using the correct command, but the locations are a problem. The command is "mount -t type what/to/mount where/to/mount". You can find out more about the mount command with "mount --help" or "man mount"
You have correctly identified type as vfat - this means the pen is formated as FAT.
To find out what to mount, you can check /var/log/messages.log, the second command you posted searches trough that file and prints out lines including the phrase SCSI, and the result tells you that a usb storage device had been attached as sdb, so the correct device is /dev/sdb1. Storage devices are named sda sdb sdc etc in the order they are attached, and the numbers refer to the partitions on the disk.
You can mount it anywhere you want, as any existing directory, but the one you tried to use /mnt/usbstick doesn't exist, so create it, using mkdir.
The commands you need therefore are:
mkdir /mnt/usbstick
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbstick
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Hope this helps
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or B) the OS has been slightly corrupted and may need reloading
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