[xubuntu-users] Thumb Drive & CD Mount Failure

[Luke Van Dervort]

On your filesystem do you have a directory called

/media/[yourusername]   ?

If so do you have read permissions on them?


On 05/20/2014 06:32 PM, Rog wrote:
> Thumb drives fail to mount: I see this error when I plug them into any 
> USB port:
>
>     Unable to mount 8.1 GB Filesystem
>     Error creating mount point: No such file or directory
>
> This happens on thumb drives with and without data on them that I can 
> mount on other PCs running Xubuntu.
>
> I am guessing that this is a software problem because I have been able 
> to do I/O on thumb drives in the past. And, curiously, I can mount and 
> read them in a guest VM, i.e., Win-7 running in Virtualbox! (Don't be 
> confounded by this: I have been able to see thumb drives and my CDs in 
> my Linux host even while running VMs.)
>
> When I insert thumb drives, the light on the drive blinks, signaling 
> accesses being attempted. I can "see" the drive but not mount it in 
> Nautilus AND in "Disk Utility" (palimpsest), which tells me, if I 
> attempt to mount, I see
>
>     An error occurred while performing an operation on "8.1 GB
>     Filesystem" (Partition 1 of USB2 USB Flash Drive. The operation failed
>
> with Details:
>
>     Error creating mount point: No such file or directory
>
> The same errors happen when I try to read a CD in my CD/DVD drive, 
> including: I can read a CD in the Win-7 VM.
>
> I'm running Xubuntu 12.04.4, 64-bit using an Intel motherboard with an 
> I3 processor.
>
>
>
>

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