USB drive with multiple partitions

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Nathan!

Nathan O'Sullivan [2004-11-12 10:29 +1000]:
> I have an external USB HDD with 7 FAT32 partitions.
> 
> First question for the Ubuntu guys - currently Hoary just does nothing
> when I plug it in.  Are there any log files I can look through/send you
> guys if you aren't already aware of this problem?

Yes please; follow the steps in 

  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#usbfirewire

> In warty, it works how I would expect - 

So it's at least not fundamentally broken :-)

> my one problem being, is there a way to unmount the device, rather
> than each drive individually? (I hate to say it, but...) Windows has
> us beat there, since I can just "eject" the USB device rather than
> the individual drives. Clicking Unmount volume seven times quickly
> gets tiresome. 

Can you please file that as a wishlist item in bugzilla? Hoary will
soon get a panel applet which manages removable drives and it might be
a good idea to implement this there.

Martin

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