[ale] External USB drive is detected as /dev/sda and /dev/sda1

[Chris Paquin]

As requested:

[root at jupiter ~]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults
1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults
1 2
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620
0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults
0 0
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults
1 2
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults
0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults
0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hda3         swap                    swap    defaults
0 0
[root at jupiter ~]# mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
automount(pid1822) on /net type autofs
(rw,fd=4,pgrp=1822,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /media/disk type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync)



On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 19:34 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 19:17 -0400, Chris Paquin wrote:
> > Does anyone know why this would do this? This is an external drive in an
> > enclosure. I plug it in and bam, two icons appear on my fedora desktop
> > for the new media device. One obviously is useless but cannot be deleted
> > or moved to trash as I get the error "failed to mount device".
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to fix this?
> 
> Send us the output of "cat /etc/fstab" please.
> 
> Also, with the USB device plugged in, send the output of "mount".
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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