Tom London wrote: > OK, this is getting spooky.... > > After "forcing" gnome-mount (via "gnome-mount -d /dev/sdb1 --fstype > ext4"), and unmounting (via gnome-mount -u), I rebooted and forgot to > power off/unplug the USB drive. > > After gdm login, the system had no problem mounting the ext4 > filesystem (/media/Backup1 was "just there"). > > Now, each time I "plug in" the USB drive, it just automagically mounts > the ext4 FS without any complaints or problems. > > I can only guess that something was "caching" the filesystem type > (udev?) somewhere.... > > On the up side, this is now "just working" for me. On the down side, > not sure I can help debug this any longer.... > > Make sense to you? > > tom I'm honestly not as up to speed on udev as I probably should be, but I've seen Ted make references before to needing reboots before new filesystems can be recognized via udev... perhaps it's the same thing. -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list