Mount USB in arch

How do I mount my usb flash after installing arch?
it does not automatically identifies the device.

In addition to searching, you could provide more detail. Without any context we have no idea at what 'depth' your question is being asked.
If you're wondering why there isn't some automagically mounted device ready to be used, that's simply not how arch works (by default).
If you want to know how to set up automounting, there are *many* approaches, and they are detailed in a wiki page which will come up very quickly if you search for automounting.
If you want to just know how to mount drives, read `man mount`.
If your device does not even show up in /dev/ then the dmesg output would help - of course only after you ensure your running kernel is the same one that is installed. This too would come up very quickly if you searched for it.
If your installed and running kernel are the same, yet nothing shows up in /dev/ or dmesg, then we'd need more information about the hardware in question.
So - overall - we need a lot more information, starting with what level your concern/question is at, what you have already tried to fix it, and what documentation you have already tried to follow.
(edit: this was cross posted with the above which provide some information. But those are the fine details for one of the major categories I layed out. We don't even know what category were working with yet.)
Last edited by Trilby (2014-01-21 13:45:40)

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Mounting USB devices in arch guest

I'm new to virtualbox, but not to linux. I have been using arch for at least 3 years, so I have some familiarity with it. I have recently installed arch as a guest OS on virtualbox (on OSX host). I am having some trouble accessing an attached USB device from the arch guest. I have defined the virtualbox USB filter for my device, and it appears to work, detecting the identified device and attaching it to the guest (at least as far as virtualbox is concerned). I can see the device in the virtualbox pull-down menu, and it shows with a "checkmark" next to it, showing (I think) that it has been attached to my arch guest.
Problem is, I cannot see the device from the arch guest. no entry in /dev for any USB device. symptoms are the same whether i insert ther USB device before or after starting the arch guest. I have HAL and dbus active in my guest. Also, I have made this work in arch installed natively. since there is no /dev entry, this might appear to be some form of udev issue? is there a specific udev setup that I should be aware of for arch as a guest?
Please help if you can. I will appreciate all comments and suggestions.
-dvh

hey, ive got Arch setup in virtualbox as well, and can mount usb's and cd's etc. (although with some issues i may need to bring up in another thread...) anyways, im assuming you have the PUEL virtualbox and not the OSE one?
also, your certain that you've mounted the correct USB (on the Virtual Box pull-down menu)? because you may have mounted a USB which was already attached to your host, and not the actual USB?
just checking, i dont know much about how to fix this issue so im just going at the simple solutions...

How to mount USB Flash Drive

Hello again Arch-Linux users,
I always search google very hard and for months (off and on) I search for how to mount a USB Flash Drive. Nothing ever work so I give up than try again months latter. I don't want to give up anymore and that is why I join this forum.
Here are some of the code I found on the net. Some of these commands will only re-mount the entire Arch-Linux running system in /mnt/usbstick.
sudo mount -o rw,noauto,async,user,umask=1000 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick
... don't work it only re-mount the entire system
/dev/sda15 /mnt/usbstick vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0
... don't work... I found nothing inside /mnt/usbstick
mount -t vfat -o rw,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1001,gid=100,umask=077,iocharset=utf8 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick
... don't work... here is the error i get:
mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /mnt/usbstick busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is mounted on /
It strange that most USB mount commands use the operating system partition itself- example: /dev/sda1 as the device for USB device, while others use /dev/cdrom for cd - /dev/dvd for dvd and /dev/fd0 for floppy.
Could someone post the code that will easily mount a usb device under Arch_Linux.
I'm using Arch-Linux core-64 (08-2009)
Thanks in advance
Last edited by sharris (2010-06-17 21:58:43)

Thanks fsckd,
I needed a rapid reply because I been wasting too much time not getting anything done because I needed to get pass this flash-drive thing. I can now have a secure back-up in my pocket on USB to go. Arch-Linux does it better for what I seen while just dd'ing on disk.
...lsusb
Found it
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org … susb8.html
Thanks demian,
sdb is the location for my single hard-drive machine. I saw it before in my list above but I changed it to sda1 because I knew no better. I had no clue it represent a 2nd hard-drive for LINUX if one is not already present.
This did it for me
Thanks again

Pcmanfm is "Not Authorized" to mount usb drives

Hi,
I recently installed arch linux it's a nice distro but I got a few problem with it.
The biggest one is that I am actually not able to mount usb drives with pcmanfm this means that I am not able to use my old debian /home so far.
I tired multiple thinks (some of them are still active) e.g for example I used to setup a udev rules which wasn't helpful at all (and even after deleting this rule I always see server empty folder in /media (but that's another problem)).
Any ideas why I am not able to mount encrypted and not encrypted USB drives in arch linux?
Last edited by 42sec (2011-12-28 13:21:41)

wonder wrote:paste ck-list-sessions output, uname -r and cat /etc/pam.d/login
[sec42@archlinux ~]$ ck-list-sessions
Session1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = ''
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2011-12-28T14:28:01.840505Z'
login-session-id = '1'
idle-since-hint = '2011-12-28T14:28:32.462384Z'
[sec42@archlinux ~]$ uname -r
3.1.5-1-ARCH
[sec42@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/pam.d/login
#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_securetty.so
auth requisite pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_unix.so nullok
auth required pam_tally.so onerr=succeed file=/var/log/faillog
# use this to lockout accounts for 10 minutes after 3 failed attempts
#auth required pam_tally.so deny=2 unlock_time=600 onerr=succeed file=/var/log/faillog
account required pam_access.so
account required pam_time.so
account required pam_unix.so
#password required pam_cracklib.so difok=2 minlen=8 dcredit=2 ocredit=2 retry=3
#password required pam_unix.so sha512 shadow use_authtok
session required pam_unix.so
session required pam_env.so
session required pam_motd.so
session required pam_limits.so
session optional pam_mail.so dir=/var/spool/mail standard
session optional pam_lastlog.so
session optional pam_loginuid.so
-session optional pam_ck_connector.so nox11
-session optional pam_systemd.so

[SOLVED] Cannot mount usb (as normal user)

Hello
I'm facing this problem for the first time, but can't tell if it came after an update or an unexpected reboot (light went out).
I'm using latest kde (4.9.2?), and the latest kernel,
Linux gantz 3.6.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 5 11:57:22 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
When I plug any usb device, kde ask me what to do. When trying to mount it, either from the kde "mount" plasmoid or from dolphin, I get a "Not authorized" error. Mounting via cli with sudo works fine.
After doing some research, I found that I need to be in the storage group in order to be able to mount, so I checked, and I was already on the storage group. Next.
More research sent me to lots of pages talking abour .xinitrc, wich doesn't exists (on my home, at least). Also tons of pages where talking about somethin like "exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch session-manager" (I login via kdm), but the ck-launch-session is not found on my computer either.
So i'm stucked right now, and don't know how to proceed, any clues? Thanks
Last edited by mzneverdies (2012-11-10 13:10:09)

mzneverdies wrote:
Solved, it was a polkit issue, don't know what caused it, since i didn't touch any config file/dialog.
after changing allow any to "yes" in this section
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount">
<description>Mount a device</description>
<description xml:lang="da">Montér en enhed</description>
<message>Authentication is required to mount the device</message>
<message xml:lang="da">Autorisering er påkrævet for at montere et fil system</message>
<defaults>
<allow_any>yes</allow_any>
<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>yes</allow_active>
</defaults>
</action>
on file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy, everything came back to normal, and i'm able to mount usb devices.
pd @Raynman: removing myself from the storage group did not change anything.
that's not a fix, it's a crappy workaround. You are not supposed to touch these files, they will be overwritten on an upgrade. My guess is that you are simply not using systemd and therefore you are not in an active logind session. You have to boot with systemd, as mentioned in the news. Everything should then just work out of the box.

Can't mount usb devices as a normal user

Hi.
I woud like to ask for help. I've been struggling with some "bug" that i came with Arch and usb devices (disks, pendrives). I can't mount it as a normal user using KDE default mounting software (Dolphin, for an exmample). I can mount it only in therminal by using sudo privileages. Is there a way to fix it? I read it, the same problem:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180025
I tried to check everything according this topic, also with udisk2 archwiki thread but on my desktop machine i just can't mount usb devices without root password. This is how the error looks like for a Dolphin:
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This is the error, from picture
Error when trying to use acces to "removable device 7,5GB". System showed: The requested operation has failed. Error checking authorization:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount is not registered (polkit-error-quark, 0)
Could somebody help me? I even installed udisk mounting tool to mont without root password, added 50-udisks.policy and it just does not work.
Help.
I can mount it wit terminal by typing
sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/usb
than i'm asked for password and it is mounted. Don't know why i can't mount it without password when connecting usb devices to usb port.
moderator edit [ewaller]Removed link to over sized image.. Note, you set up a click through thumbnail correctly, but the "Thumbnail" was the same image and was too large
Last edited by ewaller (2014-09-28 16:37:41)

Some refresh. I followed this topic:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180025
with the same problem. I found errors here:
firekage@arch_desktop ~]$ journalctl -r -u polkit
-- Logs begin at pią 2014-06-13 18:04:12 CEST, end at czw 2014-12-25 20:15:01 CET. --
cze 23 15:59:15 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.24, object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale pl_PL.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
cze 23 15:29:59 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:21:05 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:21:03 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:21:01 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:21:00 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:20:59 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:20:58 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:20:06 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.24 [/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale pl_PL.UTF-8)
cze 20 22:19:49 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager.
cze 20 22:19:49 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus
cze 20 22:19:49 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 1 rules
cze 20 22:19:49 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
cze 20 22:19:49 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
cze 20 22:19:49 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Started polkitd version 0.112
-- Reboot --
cze 20 22:15:10 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Stopping Authorization Manager...
cze 20 22:15:08 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.23, object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale pl_PL.UTF-8)
cze 20 22:02:59 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:02:56 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:02:55 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:02:54 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:02:53 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.11 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 22:00:00 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.23 [/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale pl_PL.UTF-8)
cze 20 21:59:26 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager.
cze 20 21:59:26 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus
cze 20 21:59:26 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 1 rules
cze 20 21:59:26 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
cze 20 21:59:26 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
cze 20 21:59:26 arch_desktop polkitd[304]: Started polkitd version 0.112
cze 20 21:59:26 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager...
-- Reboot --
cze 20 21:58:39 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Stopped Authorization Manager.
cze 20 21:58:39 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Stopping Authorization Manager...
cze 20 21:55:01 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 21:54:59 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 21:54:58 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 21:54:56 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 21:54:56 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 21:47:40 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.21 [/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale pl_PL.UTF-8)
cze 20 21:47:22 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager.
cze 20 21:47:22 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus
cze 20 21:47:22 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 1 rules
cze 20 21:47:22 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
cze 20 21:47:22 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
cze 20 21:47:22 arch_desktop polkitd[306]: Started polkitd version 0.112
cze 20 21:47:22 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager...
-- Reboot --
cze 20 19:56:46 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Stopping Authorization Manager...
cze 20 19:56:45 arch_desktop polkitd[310]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.21, object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale pl_PL.UTF-8)
cze 20 19:55:51 arch_desktop polkitd[310]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.21 [/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale pl_PL.UTF-8)
cze 20 19:55:16 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager.
cze 20 19:55:16 arch_desktop polkitd[310]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus
cze 20 19:55:16 arch_desktop polkitd[310]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 1 rules
cze 20 19:55:16 arch_desktop polkitd[310]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
cze 20 19:55:16 arch_desktop polkitd[310]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
cze 20 19:55:16 arch_desktop polkitd[310]: Started polkitd version 0.112
cze 20 19:55:16 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager...
-- Reboot --
cze 20 19:54:38 arch_desktop systemd[1]: Stopping Authorization Manager...
cze 20 19:54:13 arch_desktop polkitd[305]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.21, object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale pl_PL.UTF-8)
cze 20 16:47:01 arch_desktop polkitd[305]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 20 03:02:19 arch_desktop polkitd[305]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 19 21:32:38 arch_desktop polkitd[305]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 19 19:25:08 arch_desktop polkitd[305]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 19 19:24:40 arch_desktop polkitd[305]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 19 19:24:38 arch_desktop polkitd[305]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 19 19:24:36 arch_desktop polkitd[305]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 19 19:24:35 arch_desktop polkitd[305]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
cze 19 19:24:34 arch_desktop polkitd[305]: Operator of unix-session:c1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.10 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:firekage)
Could somebody help me? I even checked all rules in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d and /usr/share/polkit-1/actions on my notebook, and all files are the same with the same user permission but on notebook i can mount usb without problem, but on my desktop can't at all.

Problem mounting usb stick with ISO installed on it [SOLVED]

I'm experiencing a weird problem regarding mounting usb sticks. Archlinux stopped auto-mounting usb sticks on my machine, but only those that contains an operating system. Empty or data usb sticks mount without problem.
A few weeks or month ago, I don't remember exactly, still everything was all right, but due to updates(?) usb sticks won't auto mount any more.
I have two arch partitions none of them mount usb sticks anymore with operating systems on them.
Today, I wanted to test a new operating system and write it on my usb stick, and of course I couldn't because arch didn't mount it. Luckily, on my other partitions a few old distos are still installed – I don't use them anymore for years- I booted them up and they mounted the usb stick without problem; it seems only the up-to-date system have problem handling the usb sticks. I have two Arch system installed on two different partitions, Gnome 3 and Enlightenment, both system are up to date.
Here are some info:
[mak@myhost ~]$ dmesg | grep -E "sd[a-z]"
[ 1.369732] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte logical blocks: (120 GB/111 GiB)
[ 1.369819] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1.369821] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 1.369872] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1.369924] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte logical blocks: (320 GB/298 GiB)
[ 1.369982] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 1.369985] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 1.370070] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1.371642] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6
[ 1.372298] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 1.429438] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 sdb9
[ 1.430159] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 2.244580] EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 2.348031] systemd[1]: Expecting device dev-sdb8.device...
[ 2.362842] EXT4-fs (sda5): re-mounted. Opts: discard,data=ordered
[ 3.358252] Adding 2097148k swap on /dev/sdb8. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2097148k FS
[ 5.458907] EXT4-fs (sda5): re-mounted. Opts: discard,data=ordered,commit=0
[ 52.120360] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 15679488 512-byte logical blocks: (8.02 GB/7.47 GiB)
[ 52.121310] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 52.121319] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 52.122191] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[ 52.122199] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 52.125825] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[ 52.125838] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 52.126999] sdc: sdc1 sdc2
[ 52.131071] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[ 52.131084] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 52.131093] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[mak@myhost ~]$
[root@myhost mak]# fdisk -l
WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion.
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: gpt
# Start End Size Type Name
1 2048 18431 8M BIOS boot parti BIOS boot
2 18432 56641478 27G Linux filesyste sda2
3 56641536 113264582 27G Linux filesyste sda3
4 113264640 169887686 27G Linux filesyste sda4
5 169887744 226510790 27G Linux filesyste sda5
6 226510848 234441614 3.8G Linux filesyste Spare
WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion.
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: gpt
# Start End Size Type Name
1 2048 18431 8M BIOS boot parti Bios boot
2 18432 54544383 26G Microsoft basic Partition 2
3 54544384 109070335 26G Linux filesyste Partition 3
4 109070336 163596287 26G Microsoft basic
5 163596288 218122239 26G EFI System Partition 5
6 218122240 272647630 26G Microsoft basic Partition 6
7 272648192 327174143 26G Linux filesyste Partition 7
8 327174144 331368447 2G Linux swap Swap
9 331368448 625142414 140.1G Linux filesyste Storage
Disk /dev/sdc: 8027 MB, 8027897856 bytes, 15679488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x5fadc669
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 0 4040703 2020352 0 Empty
/dev/sdc2 4036 38595 17280 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
Disk /dev/sdc1: 2068 MB, 2068840448 bytes, 4040704 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x5fadc669
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1p1 * 0 4040703 2020352 0 Empty
/dev/sdc1p2 4036 38595 17280 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
[root@myhost mak]#
[root@myhost mak]# blkid -o list -c /dev/null
device fs_type label mount point UUID
/dev/sda1 (not mounted)
/dev/sda2 ext4 (not mounted) 0a76a275-1798-495b-aa27-732626029de2
/dev/sda3 ext4 (not mounted) 0e9363ef-3791-409c-8db9-393385007689
/dev/sda4 ext4 (not mounted) 8f043c02-8b56-4689-a0ee-ed34ccc6f21f
/dev/sda5 ext4 / 82699b0e-8fe9-41e2-be13-65c798ed8a73
/dev/sda6 ext4 (not mounted) 3eaab6bf-2d05-4a7b-a6f7-8675e5f18723
/dev/sdb1 (not mounted)
/dev/sdb2 ext4 (not mounted) 17069311-9f14-4430-8298-be48194eb874
/dev/sdb3 ext4 (not mounted) 2e3b383d-3fa7-40df-b52d-c5d07caf252e
/dev/sdb4 ext4 (not mounted) 9d9b0656-d4ca-4efa-b6f8-1797bd4ead1f
/dev/sdb5 ext4 (not mounted) 05abf58a-ae6e-4377-9b3d-d6bacd92226d
/dev/sdb6 ext4 (not mounted) 8d7c6d55-dc47-471f-84f6-aae8864dfdd7
/dev/sdb7 ext4 (not mounted) b2155741-8f88-4063-bd1b-39b210004b17
/dev/sdb8 swap <swap> 97cf7cdf-299c-4e0d-a438-c8b79766699c
/dev/sdb9 ext4 (not mounted) 426648fd-98f5-4fb0-9114-bdbdfea9047c
/dev/sdc1 udf Sabayon GNOME (not mounted) 2013-07-29-13-08-13-27
/dev/sdc2 vfat (not mounted) CF68-C2B6
[root@myhost mak]#
Thanks for the help.
jmak
Last edited by jmak (2013-08-14 00:12:54)

cfr wrote:
What is sdc1p? Is that another USB stick? It seems to have an equally weird partition map.
By the way, you can't create an Arch USB bootable in EFI mode with dd. Obviously don't know about sabayon.
EDIT: Did you dd to the disk or to a partition? What command exactly did you use? Because it almost looks as if you did something like dd once and create one thing and then dd over the top of one of the partition so you've got a partition which itself has a partition map. Not sure that's possible but it sure looks weird.
I would wipe the key and start over.
I don't know what is that. It is a partition on the same usb stick, it was the “dd” that made that partition automatically, I guess. When I burn images into usb, I always use this command:
# dd bs=4M if=/path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx && sync
I used this when burned Sabayon and it works perfectly.
The problem is that Arch can't auto-mount its own installation usb either. I put the arch install usb in and I get the following output:
[root@myhost mak]# blkid -o list -c /dev/null
device fs_type label mount point UUID
/dev/sda1 (not mounted)
/dev/sda2 ext4 (not mounted) 0a76a275-1798-495b-aa27-732626029de2
/dev/sda3 ext4 (not mounted) 0e9363ef-3791-409c-8db9-393385007689
/dev/sda4 ext4 (not mounted) 8f043c02-8b56-4689-a0ee-ed34ccc6f21f
/dev/sda5 ext4 / 82699b0e-8fe9-41e2-be13-65c798ed8a73
/dev/sda6 ext4 (not mounted) 3eaab6bf-2d05-4a7b-a6f7-8675e5f18723
/dev/sdb1 (not mounted)
/dev/sdb2 ext4 (not mounted) 17069311-9f14-4430-8298-be48194eb874
/dev/sdb3 ext4 (not mounted) 2e3b383d-3fa7-40df-b52d-c5d07caf252e
/dev/sdb4 ext4 (not mounted) 9d9b0656-d4ca-4efa-b6f8-1797bd4ead1f
/dev/sdb5 ext4 (not mounted) 05abf58a-ae6e-4377-9b3d-d6bacd92226d
/dev/sdb6 ext4 (not mounted) 8d7c6d55-dc47-471f-84f6-aae8864dfdd7
/dev/sdb7 ext4 (not mounted) b2155741-8f88-4063-bd1b-39b210004b17
/dev/sdb8 swap <swap> 97cf7cdf-299c-4e0d-a438-c8b79766699c
/dev/sdb9 ext4 /run/media/mak/426648fd-98f5-4fb0-9114-bdbdfea9047c 426648fd-98f5-4fb0-9114-bdbdfea9047c
/dev/sdc1 iso9660 ARCH_201305 (not mounted) 2013-05-01-07-12-33-00
[root@myhost mak]#
It doesn't appear in nautilus side panel.
Last edited by jmak (2013-08-13 02:44:45)

HAL mounts USB flash devices without support for non-latin characters

Hey folks!
How can I make HAL mount USB flash devices with support for German characters such as ä, ö, ü, ß, etc? At the moment there's only a silly question mark instead: http://www12.file-upload.net/20.08.08/3cpcpx.png .
Can anyone help me?
Thanks.
Henrik

I think it's a bug in KDE4, because no other window manager or desktop environment has such problems. I had it as well, when I used KDE4.0.* for testing and seems like this remained. Do you have a completely german KDE4? Check the system settings!
A thing comes to my mind, did you check it with konqueror? I guess this bug appears in dolphin, richtig? I schätz mal schon Try it with konqueror, if it doesn't appear there, it's a dolphin thing

[SOLVED] How to automatically mount USB drives with custom mount point

edit:
Original title was : 'Unable to mount USB disk via /etc/rc.local', but got changed since the /etc/rc.local problem isn't relevant for me anymore.
Hello,
Since I am new to this forum, I'll start off with this :
Thanks to archlinux, its founder and all its contributors, cause this is the operating system (flavour) that annoys me the least.
The root problem :
I want to automount USB storage devices to other places than /media/ and without the need for programs that depend on gnome and the like. As I tried some stuff with hald and such, I didn't really get to a nice and easy to configure solution. Any hints in that direction are always welcome.
For now, automount of known USB storages devices during boot, will do.
So the things I tried and didnt work :
1.
Provide the disk info to /etc/fstab (via the disks UUID and 'auto' filesystem)
Add 'mount /mountpoint' to /etc/rc.local
Result : the mount command in rc.local says '... specify filesystem'
However, after boot, running /etc/rc.local mounts the USB disks correctly.
2.
Provide the disk info to /etc/fstab (via the disks UUID and the correct filesystem)
Add 'mount /mountpoint' to /etc/rc.local
Result : pc doesn't get through boot process and gives me the 'ctrl-d to reboot or root passwd for maintenance'
3.
Provide no disk info in /etc/fstab
Add the full mount line to /etc/rc.local (mount -t fs /dev/disks/by-uuid/MyUUID /MyMountpoint )
Result : don't remember the output of the mount execution, but well, it didn't mount
However, after boot, running /etc/rc.local mounts the USB disks correctly.
Is there something that isn't loaded at the time of rc.local execution that I need for mounting of USB devices ? Or why else is this failing ?
Regards,
BasiK
Last edited by BasiK (2009-08-28 07:22:50)

Thanks for the hint hunterthomson, but the pc I will be using it on, is an own-built HTPC/home file server, so there is no way I want to use a graphical file manager to get the usb disks mounted.
I tried to figure out a little about udev rules, and I got to do what I wanted to do, so thx for pointing me in that direction Mr.Elendig.
Btw, I am indeed also using auto-sleep/park disks, but this udev way works perfectly.
I added two rules files to /etc/udev/rules.d/ :
The first for a known usb disk (with its volume uuid), with a named mountpoint under my media dir /symbiosis/ :
[basik@plox ~]$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/80-usb-utopia.rules
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[b-z][0-9]", ENV{ID_FS_UUID}=="a59332c2-07ba-4c52-afb5-20e361bdf71a",SYMLINK+="usb-%n", GROUP="storage", NAME="%k"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[b-z][0-9]", ENV{ID_FS_UUID}=="a59332c2-07ba-4c52-afb5-20e361bdf71a",RUN+="/bin/mkdir -p /symbiosis/utopia"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[b-z][0-9]", ENV{ID_FS_UUID}=="a59332c2-07ba-4c52-afb5-20e361bdf71a", RUN+="/bin/mount -t auto -o rw,noauto,sync,dirsync,noexec,nodev,noatime /dev/%k /symbiosis/utopia", OPTIONS="last_rule"
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[b-z][0-9]", ENV{ID_FS_UUID}=="a59332c2-07ba-4c52-afb5-20e361bdf71a", RUN+="/bin/umount -l /symbiosis/utopia", OPTIONS="last_rule"
The second for unknown usb disks, to mount under the same dir. This is simply taken from the archwiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … .26_Tricks
Make sure these rules are executed after the ones for specific usb disks.
[basik@plox ~]$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/usb-disks.rules
KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="usb%m", GROUP="storage", OPTIONS="last_rule"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", SYMLINK+="usb%n", GROUP="storage", NAME="%k"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/mkdir -p /symbiosis/usb%n"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/mount -t auto -o rw,noauto,sync,dirsync,noexec,nodev,noatime /dev/%k /symbiosis/usb%n", OPTIONS="last_rule"
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/umount -l /symbiosis/usb%n"
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/rmdir /symbiosis/usb%n", OPTIONS="last_rule"
These may not be the nicest looking udev rules, but it works for what I wanted to do with it.

MOUNT USB STORAGE FOR VM BACKUP

Hi, I just tried to mount USB Storage to my host with linux version.
I detect it with fdisk -l and esxcli storage core device list | grep -i usb, after stopping usbarbitrator
Result:
/dev/disks #dmesg
ScsiDevice: 3385: Successfully registered device "mpx.vmhba50:C0:T0:L0" from plugin "NMP" of type 0
/dev/disks # esxcli storage core device list | grep -i usb
Display Name: Local USB Direct-Access (mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0)
Display Name: Local USB Direct-Access (mpx.vmhba50:C0:T0:L0)
How can I get disk usable for perform a VM backup?

hooya wrote:
It's in debugging mode now, which is why I can adb push to the phone. The phone should (and has in the past) mounted USB storage even in debugging mode.
That wouldn't change the fact that no other USB mass storage will mount either. I'm just using my phone as an example. USB Hard drives and my SD card reader don't show up either, but I can't do a "push" command to those like I can my phone...
If you are wondering where your post went, I think you meant to hit the 'reply' link rather than the 'report' link. It happens more often than you would think
Edit: Oh, I see you already figured that out.
Last edited by ewaller (2012-07-06 02:30:26)

Help me, why i canot auto mount Usb harddisk?

hi all,
i have install a new archlinux, but i found i cant auto mount Usb harddisk
Canot mount volume
Canot get volume.fstype.alternative
i have install hal,dbus , ntfs-3g, and add hal,dbus to rc.conf, why it still donnot work?

yes, i add to storage group:
[root@myhost figo]# groups figo
wheel network video audio optical storage power users dbus hal stb-admin figo
[root@myhost figo]#
i have confuse, i use dolpin which is kde4 program, i cant mount my usb harddisk, but
i have nautilus ,it canot mount.
[root@myhost figo]# hal-device /dev/sdb1
libhal.c 522 : invalid udi: /dev/sdb1 doesn't startwith '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/'.
(null): (null)
[root@myhost figo]#
what is the problem?

KDE mount USB device fails

Hi,
I am running KDE and having problems mounting USB devices via the KDE Device Notifier in the task bar. When I insert the USB stick there is the normal little popup giving me the option to open the flash drive in dolphin. When I click it, I get the following error:
"Could not mount the following device"
Mounting the device via terminal works fine. I also put my user into the "storage" group like the wiki tells me. Still no change.
Any ideas?

willtriv wrote:
Note: slim is ConsoleKit capable since version 1.3.3. Unless you happen to run an old version, you must no longer include ck-launch-session in your .xinitrc or slim.conf login_cmd.
These kind of changes without notifications to users cause headaches. Someone was kind enough to update the wiki!
You are my personal hero for today, I was suffering the same problem. Manifests itself as 2 CK sessions listed by ck-launch-session, with the wrong session being marked as active.
Last edited by crobe2 (2012-06-11 14:28:12)

[SOLVED][XFCE] Cannot mount usb disks & manage network connections

Hi guys,
I'm using XFCE with 3.3.1-1 kernel. Since yesterday I'm not able anymore to automatically mount usb disks, manage my WiFi networks (networkmanage connects to the default access point but I can't select another AP nor editing my settings). I'm also prompted to type my password when I clik on the shutdown icon;
So it seems I lost some privileges but I can't figured out why...
I still belong to the same grousp as before:
[root@archLaptop sclarckone]# groups sclarckone
lp wheel games video audio optical storage scanner power users
Does anybody has an idea where to take a look?
Thanks
Last edited by sclarckone (2012-04-15 20:54:38)

Me too. Start a new thread?
Edit; Nope, this worked for me https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142110
Last edited by Glinx (2012-05-25 11:44:47)

Cant mount usb sticks with fat32 ISO-8859-1 2.6.31-ARCH

when trying to mount my usb sticks from xfce4 desktop(halmount).
Following error occurs (as told by dmesg).
FAT: IO charset ISO-8859-1 not found
First i suspected hal being the culprit but now im not so sure anymore.
im using stock 2.6.31-ARCH.
when i checked the .config for the stock kernel CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y is enabled in the kernelconfig, and also everything below to support fat32.
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
but when i list the modules nls_iso8859-1.ko is missing.
#~ls -a /lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso*
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-13.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-14.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-15.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-2.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-3.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-4.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-5.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-6.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-7.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-9.ko
So i suspect the newest kernel broke mounting with hal.
Last edited by nichlas.johansson (2009-10-17 14:25:56)

Based on the information given in http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82176, I changed in /etc/rc.conf from LOCALE=en_GB.iso88591 to LOCALE=en_GB.utf8, uncommented en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen, issued # locale-gen and after a reboot, I was able to mount my usb sticks again.
However, now I get "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!" in dmesg. Is this something, I need to worry about...?
Last edited by smurf (2009-10-19 08:29:15)

Arch 2.6.36 not automatically mounting USB devices

Hi,
I am new to Arch but up to now i really like it and i am using this for my home server.
Now i use 2 external USB 1TB disks for backup which i auto mount using /etc/fstab.
The problem is that it is not auto mounting the volumes.
/etc/fstab
#External disks
UUID=dc401eb5-05f0-46ca-ba31-3d54ca66e30e /mnt/usbdisk1 ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
UUID=a3417e0a-0ec0-4106-b9df-682eb9ba92dd /mnt/usbdisk2 ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
dmesg output just after mounting my /
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD 10EAVS External 1.75 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdd: sdd1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD 10EAVS External 1.75 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
sde: sde1
sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk
It seems to recognize the physical disks but a mount is not performed?
Did i overlook something or is there something else wrong?
Thanks!

/etc/fstab is for FS options only, putting you device there does not guarantee automounting. This has already been discussed: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48469

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