Slackware :: Plugging In Thumb Drive Causes Two File Manager Windows?
Jan 5, 2010On a new 13 install using xfce pluggingin a usb thumb drive causes two file manager windows to open on the desktop.
View 2 RepliesOn a new 13 install using xfce pluggingin a usb thumb drive causes two file manager windows to open on the desktop.
View 2 RepliesHow exactly do i do it, I can't find any clear step's on it?I got no CD-R's left and can't get to the shops.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI always have a problem in simple user mode when I insert a USB key. Can't mount, can't open with file manager. I'm obliged to open a simultaneous root session, to do what I want to manage the usb key.
In my user manager, I don't know wich group I have to add to this simple user (it's me) so I am allowed to manage the usb key.
I'm using 11.3 x86-64 KDE4.4,I bought a Corsair 4GB thumb drive last week,but when I tred to transfer some file from Dolphin to Corsair,the 'paste' selection in pop up is grey color,it means I couldn't paste thing into this thumb drive. I tried to modify the permission of this thumb drive,but failed,it pop up said I have no permission to do that.And when I download a .rar file tried to extract it with Ark,it loading the archieve like never ending,what's the problem?
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe software: Ubuntu Server Edition 9.10.The wetware: A programmer doing his best (read: ignorant, shitty) as an ad-h.When I plug the USB thumb drive in, the install OS gives it a drive letter -- /dev/sdb -- and it pushes the original /dev/sdb down to /dev/sdc. The installation works without a hitch, and GRUB2 installs, dutifully pointing the root at /dev/sdc1 instead of /dev/sdb1.I let GRUB2 start normally ("drive not found"), holding the <shift> key to get to the "rescue>" prompt.From there, I issue "ls" to discover that GRUB can NOT see /dev/sdb, and I can tell that because what is showing up as (hd1) does NOT have three partitions as it should.GRUB2 sees a total of 16 drives, not 26, and one of the drives it sees is "fd0" (there is no floppy drive).Issuing commands like "set prefix=(hdx,y)" and "root=(hdx,y)" have no effect as, I think it's just pointing to the (reiserfs)content drives and this GRUB2 tells me "unknown filesystem".I did try them all in vain, hoping that maybe I'd find a kernel somewhere.I used the "rescue" mode of the Ubuntu installer (the USB thumb drive) to get to a root prompt.From there, I mounted /dev/sdc2 (the "shifted" /dev/sdb2) onto /mnt, I mounted /dev/sdc1 (the "shifted" /dev/sdb1) onto /mnt/boot,and then I chroot'ed to /mnt.I edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg, editing every instance of "root=(hd2,1)" to the appropriate UUID for the "real" /dev/sdb1. Then I issued update-grub2.It refused to work giving me an banal "no such partition" error or something like that.
We originally had this server functioning by putting / and /boot on the SS SanDisk, which caused no problems during installation because /dev/sda doesn't get shifted.We then figured it was a good idea to put our OS files on something with failover capability. And that started us down this crappy "shifting drive letter" path.Can I control which drive letter the USB thumb drive gets assigned during the install process?If I could make it be /dev/sdc then I wouldn't be facing this problem.An alternate solution would be to know the cryptic GRUB2 commands that I can issue from the command prompt post-install, pre-reboot.But I'm wondering if that will ultimately work at all considering that GRUB2 couldn't see /dev/sdb at all.
I am new to Linux ,i did one project in windows which will block the thumb drive with respect to serial number(Device instance ID) of the device.i am planning to do the same project in Linux using c/c++.I am very new to Linux,there is no drive letter for thumb drives we insert into Linux OS.How to get Drive letter and how to get Device instance id of thumb drives please help me get some clues.please provide me any tutorial or any links .w if have any other clues to block devices with respect "block list" and "allow device list".if the serial number in block list it has to block if serial number in allow device list it has to allow thumb drive to access.
View 3 Replies View RelatedNothing happens when ordinary users plug in a USB thumb drive or insert a CD into CDROM drive. Works fine for root. After root mounts the drives then all users can use them. How can I enable mounting/unmounting by all users?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'd like to know if it's possible to automatically mount, and fire up rsync to sync a USB drive with a directory? Specifically, I'd like to copy as much data as the drive can hold and only delete the oldest files if space is needed. I would assume I'd do something like this with a script, but my problem, is where to start.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI once plugged in my mini video camera (6, good buy), and I accidentally clicked on 'Always use F-spot to open this kind of device'. The problem is, I can't set it back to nautilus. I've looked everywhere, including right clicking on the drive in 'Computer', but the default application in the 'properties' window is set to 'open folder'. When I right-click on the drive, I still see F-spot on the list. If I select 'Open with other application', I can't change it from F-spot.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am setting up another computer with Debian 6 stable and I have only 2 normal sata slot on the motherboard, the board has also 2 other Raid sata slot, I don't want to use Raid, can I just plug my 3rd drive into one of those. I read that I can use those slot as JBOD (just another bunch of drive). By running a Mandriva live cd before I install any OS, I don't see that 3rd drive. I don't see anything about JBOD in the bios.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to automatically run a program on a USB Flash drive upon plugging it on a computer?the program should create a text file inside the USB flash drive as i plug it on the computer? Is this possible? how can i do this? autorun.inf doesn't work. Are there any solutions? by the way, i am using kernel 1.0 on my computer...
View 1 Replies View Relatedi tried to connect my samsung usb mp3 player and it is not showing up in mycomp. i tried to debug the issue but being a noob i didnt get anywer.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo i saw a thread somewhere about using a thumb drive to make extra ram for your pc. This was of course on a windows pc. I was wondering if this works on Ubuntu also and if it is really worth it?
Also if you have 4 USB ports could you put in 4 usb thumb drives and have a fantastic amount of ram?
I have a new Giada cube with no hard drive, so my plan is to simply run a Linux/MythTV distro called MythDora from a Patriot 8GB USB stick (this Giada does not PXE boot). I am having trouble figuring out exactly how to make this work. Yesterday, although I have forgotten exactly how, I was able to put a MythDora Live image on the stick and boot up. I went through the initial setup, and then, when I was all done, I rebooted, and..it started all over again...as if I was doing it for the first time. So...What do I need to do to create a proper bootable USB stick?What ISO image should I use? The full DVD? Or the Live ISO? or the Network image?Do I need to partition the stick and load the O/S from one small partition, transferring the installation to another larger one?What utility should I use to create the bootable stick? unetbootin? or similar?Do I have to do anything special to make my O/S and configuration changes persistent on the USB stick?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to copy my /home to a USB thumb drive recursively. I've wrestled with this for a few hours now and continue to spin my wheels.The device is listed in my Disk Utility as /dev/sdc. However a little further down it is listed as /dev/sdc1 ? Anyway, I relabeled the volume as usb stick and formatted it to Ext4. I mounted it at /media/usb stick Do I have to enter this drive into the fstab? If so, how? what do I write? Using the command : cp -R (what follows... I want to copy /home recursively to the usb thumb drive.)
View 8 Replies View RelatedI need to have a web app that is feeding ip camera feeds across internet to a server. Need to have thumb drive preconfigured with cameras prior to shipping. End user plugs in cameras, puts thumb drive in any running PC, have WEB app start with some menu options to like name the feeds. Back at server receiving feeds are broadcasted via secure web site.I have never worked with Linux but have read some incredable things already.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I insert a USB thumb drive into a USB socket a "CD-ROM Disc" icon appears on the desktop. When I double-click on the icon I get a "CD/DVD Creator" window. Messages in "/var/log/messages" shows Vendor (Sandisk) and Model (Cruzer) for the USB thumb drive. Those are correct. But for Type it says CD-ROM. What's up with that?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI had an old Windows disk I wanted to see if I could get some files off of. I was a Windows XP installation, but it got a virus of some sort and eventually died completely. I had always wanted to try to get my files off of it so I could wipe it and use it as another drive. Well, I plugged it up in my computer and thought that it would just recognize it as a regular data disk, but instead somehow it got automatically set as the boot drive. The computer went from the BIOS splash screen to blank and back a couple times before booting Windows. I then tried resetting the other drive as the boot drive and also unplugging the Windows disk with the same result: an MBR error screen.
I fixed the issue by reinstalling the MBR with the repair tools in the openSUSE disk but I am really curious if anyone knows why this happened. Is it a Windows issue or a motherboard issue or perhaps something else?. My old computer was about 7 years old but this new one is well, brand new. So I haven't had much experience with newer motherboards but I know they have come out with a lot of new features so for all I know they may have something that can detect a Windows install and rewrite the MBR or something. I also wouldn't put it past MS to influence($) MB makers to include such a feature.
The one problem I have now is that the boot options no longer display the kernel version, and the splash screen with the progress bar no longer shows, just the standard text.
I just install Gnome live 5.0.6 on a USB thumb drive and would like to know how to save my setting?
View 5 Replies View RelatedThe following quote is the sad, sad story of a thumb drive with the partition table nuked, as told by a friend of mine:
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Data was recovered from an XP system by booting with a BartPC CD and copying onto a USB thumb drive. Nothing unusual.
System was rebooted into the XP install CD.
The first drive that was found was the 16gb thumb drive (AKA flash drive) and the person (re) installing XP didn't catch the fact that XP presented the 16gb thumb drive instead of the 160gb hard drive.
The drive partition function in XP deleted the partition table - on the thumb drive.
A freeware utility in Windows shows the data but can't recover the file names, so that everything is gobbledygook. Does anybody know of a utility or program under Linux that can help? I have a laptop running F 12 and can do the work if needed, but don't know what program to use.
I am looking for OpenVMS distribution on a thumb drive for a PC. I image it would be a Linux system that automagicly starts a VAX simulator then boots OpenVMS on that. Either it would run live off of the thumb drive or it would install to the system's hard drive.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've just installed UNR version of Ubuntu on one of my thumb drives and was wondering what I needed to do to for making it have persistent changes? I've seen the different tools and the usb creator they have on Ubuntu already but I want to do it myself from scratch. What files do I need to edit to make the drive persistent? I made the bootable thumb drive using UNetbootin.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi inserted a thumbdrive on one of the usb slots on my laptop upon inserting it shows:[sdb] Assuming drive cache: Write through[977.113519] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming cache: Write through
how to read the contents of my thumbdrive?Do i need to mount it first or what should be the procedure?
I have a thumb drive that I cannot get a clean format done to use it as a boot device.Is there some way to do a lower level format (I am using Gparted) to get rid of this error?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI want a USB drive for emergency situations. It will have sensitive information, family photos, etc. stored on it. I want it to have one encrypted portion (TrueCrypt) for the sensitive materials. I want the files to be able to be viewed on a Windows machine first and foremost. If no Windows machine is available I would like to have a bootable version of Ubuntu on the USB drive so I can boot it and also view the files.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to move 1.2GB of photos onto a 2GB thumb drive, calling up Properties, it says the size on disk is 9.7GB. What is going on? I don't recall discrepencies this huge in previous OS's. What is taking up 7 times more space than my actual files?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI 'm using vmware server to virtualized suse linux enterprise server11 as the guest operating system under my main OS of window 7 professional version, but when i plug on the pen drive, SLES11 (guest OS) that hosted under vmware with window 7 prefessional as main OS can't detect of my pendrive but i can do this before at window XP version...
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have thumb drive connected to a busybox box.I mounted it /opt in initialzation file. However after a while it will unmount itself because it changes its drive letter from sda1 to sdb1. How could a usb device change its drive letter by itself? How could I prevent it happening?
View 13 Replies View RelatedI am very new to Linux ubuntu got it because friend said it way better than windows. The problem I am having is with my thumb drives. I cannot get them to work. It says I am unable to mount. The only way to get one to work is put one in wait tell it says it is unable to mount then put the second one in. At that point I am able to look at the second drive.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI would like a USB thumb drive to be automatically mounted whenever I insert the drive into my PC (previously I had been mounting it manually with the 'mount' command). I gave the USB drive a unique label with e2label. I added an entry for it in /etc/fstab. This works in the sense that if I run "mount -a", the drive will be mounted. However, it still isn't completely automatic. Am I missing something? What else do I need to do?
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