External USB Drive - Will Not Mount (Solved)

[Snowhog]

Re: External USB Drive - Will Not Mount (Solved)

Check my older post here concerning the 'solution' to the hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000 error.

[gnowak]

Re: External USB Drive - Will Not Mount (Solved)

Just an add on.

The solution is found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=601210

This is what I found to be a good solution:

-Open "System Settings" GUI
-Go to the "Advanced" tab
-Open "Disk & Filesystems"
-Click the "Administrator Mode..." button on the bottom right
-Right-click on the partition that isn't mounting properly and Select "Modify"
-Change "Mount Path" to a valid path
-Change "Mount Permission: " to "Any User may enable/disable anytime"
-Click the "Ok" button
-Click the "Enable" button at the near bottom of the window. problems:

(source is the above url)

[dimmutal]

Re: External USB Drive - Will Not Mount (Solved)

For me the above procedures had worked ok for the internal drives i had. For my external USB drive a simple format with fat32 solved my problem of automounting.