USB Drives Not Recognised on Boot
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USB Drives Not Recognised on Boot
When I boot/reboot my system my external drives aren't recognised. What I do to have them mounted is to Logout and then Login again. After that I have to click on each one before the system sees them. In some cases I have to unmount them, remove them from the USB port put them back in and click on each one to mount them. This is true for my second PC as well. The only system that recognises them is my VM that has a fresh install.
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Re: USB Drives Not Recognised on Boot
I don't quite understand your sequence. Where do you "click on them before the system sees them"? And how are you unmounting/remounting if your drives aren't recognized? I'm just a little lost? Screenshots would be good if you can post them.technwarnersprings wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:50 am When I boot/reboot my system my external drives aren't recognised. What I do to have them mounted is to Logout and then Login again. After that I have to click on each one before the system sees them. In some cases I have to unmount them, remove them from the USB port put them back in and click on each one to mount them. This is true for my second PC as well. The only system that recognises them is my VM that has a fresh install.
If these are always present external drives, you may want to set them up in fstab to have them automounted at boot.
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Re: USB Drives Not Recognised on Boot
The file manager sees them, but they are greyed out. When I select one it disappears. I then unplug them, plug them back in and viola the system mounts them and we are good to go. I'll take your advice and set them up in ftab.
Everything worked great on a fresh install but I suspect one of the updates got the system "Breaking Bad".
Everything worked great on a fresh install but I suspect one of the updates got the system "Breaking Bad".
Re: USB Drives Not Recognised on Boot
If you put them into fstab, there might by an issue, when you boot next time without having them plugged in.technwarnersprings wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:42 am The file manager sees them, but they are greyed out. When I select one it disappears. I then unplug them, plug them back in and viola the system mounts them and we are good to go. I'll take your advice and set them up in ftab.
Everything worked great on a fresh install but I suspect one of the updates got the system "Breaking Bad".
Before you use fstab for permanent mounts whould you mind to see whether
below starter cures the issues. Running the starter will actually force
the kernel to reread the partiontables, and they should show up in Thunar.
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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
## filename: partprobe.desktop
## fehlix : re-read partition table through partprobe
##
# due to SDcard USB issues
# here: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=45566
# and here: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=45582
# and here: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=45735
Type=Application
Name=PartProbe
Comment=Re-read partiontable with partprobe
Exec=gksudo partprobe
Icon=media-flash
Path=
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
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Re: USB Drives Not Recognised on Boot
SOLVED!!! The Kernel now recognizes all of the USB devices.
Re: USB Drives Not Recognised on Boot
Thats great. Please add to the subject line of your first post: [Solved]
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