USB drive won't automount

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Do an eject -n and it doesnt appear.
vold is running.

start and stop volmgt and it appears as an rmdisk0 alias in eject -n

However, I still cant mount it. Tried volrmmount -i rmdisk0. Where does
this mount it?

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Reply BertieBigBollox (157) 1/5/2007 2:25:40 PM

BertieBigBollox@gmail.com wrote:
> Do an eject -n and it doesnt appear.
> vold is running.
> start and stop volmgt and it appears as an rmdisk0 alias in eject -n
> However, I still cant mount it. Tried volrmmount -i rmdisk0. Where does
> this mount it?
Been a while since I did this but from memory the directory /rmdisk
should exist. Hmm this is documented in man rmmount ..
If the disk is unlabeled then it will mount on /rmdisk/unnamed_rmdisk
man rmformat for labelling

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Reply gerryt 1/5/2007 4:09:47 PM


BertieBigBollox@gmail.com skrev:

> Do an eject -n and it doesnt appear.
> vold is running.
>
> start and stop volmgt and it appears as an rmdisk0 alias in eject -n
>
> However, I still cant mount it. Tried volrmmount -i rmdisk0. Where does
> this mount it?

You need to have  a FAT  file system on the USB-disk.  NTFS   wont
work.

Also if memory serves,  the Solaris USB software wasent really working
well
untill  Solaris 10  01/06  .   or Solaris 10 update 1,  The release
from 12 months ago.

//Lars

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Reply tunla 1/7/2007 11:12:30 PM

tunla wrote:
> BertieBigBollox@gmail.com skrev:
> 
> 
>>Do an eject -n and it doesnt appear.
>>vold is running.
>>
>>start and stop volmgt and it appears as an rmdisk0 alias in eject -n
>>
>>However, I still cant mount it. Tried volrmmount -i rmdisk0. Where does
>>this mount it?
> 
> 
> You need to have  a FAT  file system on the USB-disk.  NTFS   wont
> work.

Even better is to have the appropriate flavor of UFS if the drive won't 
be used on another OS.

> Also if memory serves,  the Solaris USB software wasent really working
> well
> untill  Solaris 10  01/06  .   or Solaris 10 update 1,  The release
> from 12 months ago.

Automount with USB devices really didn't show up until S10U1, the 
original S10 required banging on vold to mount.

In addition, the IEEE-1394 support has improved, firewire disks will 
also automount. I was recently able to get a firewire disk formatted for 
UFS (same disk was giving me fits with Solaris 10 03/05 - though it 
might have been due to not using svcadm to disable vold). Ironically I 
had to go through more hoops trying to format a USB drive for UFS on 
S10U2 on x86.

- Erik
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Reply Erik 1/10/2007 5:43:03 AM

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