[ale] mount issue

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 10/18/2015 10:03 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Yep. Auto mount of usb stuff is (usually) automagic in gnome.

Gnome?  Isn't Cent a server OS?
My Cent7 install doesn't have any GUI. I am pretty new at Cent.

> On Oct 18, 2015 9:11 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
> 
>> If you want to see which partitions are available:  sudo parted -l
>> If you want to see partitions AND LVs: lsblk
>>
>> To me, dmesg is useful to see the last few lines when a new device has
>> been connected - hopefully that will list the USB storage. If not, try a
>> different USB port and/or don't use a USB hub. Some storage devices do
>> not work with USB hubs at all. My servers DO NOT automatically mount
>> storage.
>>
>> Is auto-mounting of USB media actually the default?
>>
>> As others have asked - does manually mounting the storage work?
>>
>>
>> On 10/18/2015 08:45 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>>> checking dmesg leaves me even more confused!
>>>
>>> ---------------[dmesg output]---------------------------
>>>
>>> [235921] usb 3-11: new high-speed USB device number 29 using xhci_hcd
>>> [235992] usb 3-11: Device not responding to set address.
>>> [448907] usb 3-11: New USB device found, idVendor=14cd, idProduct=125c
>>> [448911] usb 3-11: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3,
>>> SerialNumber=2
>>> [448912] usb 3-11: Product: Mass Storage Device
>>> [448914] usb 3-11: Manufacturer: Generic
>>> [448924] usb 3-11: SerialNumber: 125C20100726
>>> [451930] usb-storage 3-11:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
>>> [453745] scsi20 : usb-storage 3-11:1.0
>>> [455243] scsi 20:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Mass     Storage Device
>>> PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
>>> [455593] sd 20:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0
>>> [459766] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdh] 15523840 512-byte logical blocks: (7.94
>>> GB/7.40 GiB)
>>> [460211] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off
>>> [460213] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
>>> [460894] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdh] No Caching mode page found
>>> [460896] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through
>>> [464419] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdh] No Caching mode page found
>>> [464422] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through
>>> [466138]  sdh: sdh1
>>> [471053] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdh] No Caching mode page found
>>> [471056] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through
>>> [471058] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI removable disk
>>> [735687] SELinux: initialized (dev fuse, type fuse), uses genfs_contexts
>>> [069731] usb 3-11: USB disconnect, device number 29
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> And here are the last few lines of the output from "mount" after the sd
>>> card is attached to the box:
>>> /dev/sdb1 on /home type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)
>>> /dev/sda1 on /boot type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)
>>> fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
>>> gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse
>>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> as you can see, there is no indication the card was mounted.
>>>
>>> Could this be an SELinux problem?
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 18:53 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>> Sounds like it's time for ddrescue or photorec (excellent) then a flame
>>>> thrower or hammer.
>>>>
>>>> Check dmesg to see what the system says it it and try to manually mount
>> it.
>>>>
>>>> Also, some external readers are crappy. Unplug the usb, insert the card,
>>>> plug in the usb.
>>>> On Oct 18, 2015 6:45 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have an 8 gig sd card that may be FUBAR.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I plug it into the computer (USB connection) nothing happens.  The
>>>>> system does not automount the chip as it should.
>>>>>
>>>>> But, If I go to the GUI and check for USB devices it appears on the
>> list
>>>>> of available devices.  When I click on the line (7.4 GiB Rem...) I get
>>>>> this:
>>>>>
>>>>> UDI: /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdh
>>>>>
>>>>> The "mount" command does NOT list the device.
>>>>>
>>>>> Obviously, at some level the OS (CentOs7) knows the card has been
>>>>> attached to the system.  But it won't automount it as it should.
>>>>>
>>>>> Clues would be appreciated as I really would like to recover the pix on
>>>>> this SD card.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sean