Cannot mount USB drive

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FIrts of all: I'm a total beginner on Linux world.
I was enjoying my new A1 but since this very morning when I plug any storage media (disk or usb pen drive) on any of the three usb ports it is not mounted (I cannot see it on Thunar auomatically as soon as I plug it in) :-( even if just yesterday I was playing some mp3 files by this way ..
On the other side, I have no problems on using a usb mouse.

Any idea on what could I do to force this behaviour? how can I fix it?

Any help will be welcomed!
 
Some more details on my probem: if I run Thunar as root (not as user) usb drive is auto mounted ...

nice, isn't it?
 
Re: Cannot mount USB drive - NTFS external hard drive

I have this problem with an external USB hard disk (a 160 Gb Stargate to be precise) which I use with my Win XP laptop but Thunar on my Aspire One doesn't seem to like NTFS file system and cannot mount it. I'm very new to Linux (although I am quite a computer wiz otherwise :geek: ) and I wonder if I shall install something like a driver so that it can mount the hard disk. Does Linpus Linux get along well with NTFS anyway? What to do? :?
Thanks a lot.
 
Hello, I had the same problem
Suddenly one day the USB stick stopped being mounted automatically.
After getting some information, I discovered that it can be mounted manually (a few "magic" linux orders in the Terminal window).
Another option is opening "thunar" (the file organizer) and activating "advanced view" (it's a menu option). Then the window is closed and reloaded, and again "magically" the USB was mounted automatically.

These are not good solutions (because I don´t know why this happens), but at least they work.

With regard to the NTFS file system. I think linux does not recognize it. I have an external USB hard disk with FAT file system and I don´t have problems.
 
I'm also new to Linux, and I would like to use my NTFS formatted USB-drives with the A1.

However, I found this site, which provides NTFS-drivers for Linux: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

Now, which distro is used on the A1, and which version of this driver should I use ?
 
I'm new to linux too, but found this about getting ntfs to woork somewhere on the net, and it works for me:

open terminal and type in: sudo yum install ntfs-3g

good luck
 
benkei said:
I'm new to linux too, but found this about getting ntfs to woork somewhere on the net, and it works for me:

open terminal and type in: sudo yum install ntfs-3g

good luck
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Worked here too.

Thanx a lot.
 
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