hi all I just installed gnewsense and I can not mount my TOSHIBA EXT I did mount -a but does not work with gui does not work too says(Invalid mount option when atempting to mount the volume 'TOSHIBA EXT') I tried with an usb memory stick does not work too Does gnewsense can mount external devises ubuntu did it automaticly

I can verify that the default install of gNewSense 2.3 does mount external USB drives automatically.

It seems like gNewSense mounted my USB drives automatically at some point in time, but I can't remember for sure. It definitely doesn't do it now. I don't really mind that myself, I like a little more control over where they get mounted, etc. This is what I usually do after I plug in the USB drive or stick:

ls -ltr /dev/sd*

From the output I can tell which device it is from the time stamps. There is usually a device like /dev/sdg that is the whole drive and /dev/sdg1 that is the partition. Then I do:

sudo mount /dev/sdg1 /media/disk

And that usually does the trick. I think that will work even for FAT formatted drives (most of mine are ext2, ext3, or my own format: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/objectify). If it doesn't work try:

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdg1 /media/disk

I have one drive that was formatted on a Mac and it can be mounted with:

sudo mount -t hfs /dev/sdg1 /media/disk

Note: I previously created the /media/disk mount point with:

sudo mkdir /media/disk

thank you jsedwards I tried ls -ltr output was: valeriu@valeriu-laptop:~$ ls -hltr /dev/sd* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-12-27 07:12 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-12-27 07:12 /dev/sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 2009-12-27 07:12 /dev/sda3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 2009-12-27 07:12 /dev/sda4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-12-27 07:12 /dev/sda1 how I understand that is an internal hard drive I also installed ubuntu on other partition and ubuntu did not mount it too so maybe problem is in hardware not in software.Strange think is then I run gnuwsense from bootable usbstick live cd it does mount external hard drive and if I restart and run ubuntu after that did mount too(but not for long time), with gnewsense(did not hapen to mount) If anybody knows a solution please reply Problem is not only my TOSHIBA EXT but any external usb hard drive

thank you jsedwards I tried ls -ltr output was:

valeriu@valeriu-laptop:~$ ls -hltr /dev/sd*

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-12-27 07:12 /dev/sda

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-12-27 07:12 /dev/sda2

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 2009-12-27 07:12 /dev/sda3

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 2009-12-27 07:12 /dev/sda4

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-12-27 07:12 /dev/sda1

how I understand that is an internal hard drive I also installed ubuntu on other partition and ubuntu did not mount it too so maybe problem is in hardware not in software.Strange think is then I run gnuwsense from bootable usbstick live cd it does mount external hard drive and if I restart and run ubuntu after that did mount too(but not for long time), with gnewsense(did not hapen to mount) If anybody knows a solution please reply Problem is not only my TOSHIBA EXT but any external usb hard drive

Here's something weird. Now in the past it seemed like after I rebooted my machine, it would automatically mount USB drives or CF cards at first but then after a while it would no longer mount them and I would have to do it by hand. (I only reboot once every 2 or 3 months.)

I rebooted this machine on January 1st of this year and I am fairly certain that it did NOT mount USB or CF cards automatically. But then a couple of weeks ago, suddenly it did start mounting them automatically. I rebooted a couple of days ago and I just tried it and it is no longer mounting them automatically.