I broke drive automounting. Help me fix it please?
So at work someone was trying to copy the contents of a windows drive to a new drive and they could not get it to show up on windows. I plugged it into my Trisquel laptop and it automounted. Seemed to work fine. I started to copy the files over to the blank drive. After about an hour something got stuck and I tried to restart the process but the drive would not respond. I disconnected and reconnected the drives, but they would not mount. I went into gnome-disks and it could see them, they just had not mounted yet. So I mounted them both and finished the work.
Now however, nothing will mount on it's own. In order to use ANY disk I HAVE to go into gnome-disks and mount it there. I tried to reset the dconf-editor settings so things would automount, but it reads as being set so things WOULD automount, even though they are not. Which you can see in my screenshot.
So I don't know what should be done next. Could someone help me please? Thank you for reading.
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What I'm going to suggest here now is a side note, since I have once
experienced a similar problem.
What could help in this case is:
* Just INSERT/PLUG the disk drive which was previously removed unsafely.
Don't mount its partitions.
* Use a file system checking to check for errors on the all the
partitions of the disk drive which was removed unsafely.
** I don't know, but perhaps GParted can do this check for you if you
want an user-friendly way of doing so.
** If GParted isn't able to do so, perhaps you can use programs like
Fsck ("fsck" command), and similar ones, like the Fsck.fat ("fsck.fat"
command) to check FAT file systems (provided by the "dosfstools" package).
"util-linux" package.
What if I no longer have access to the drive that made this mess? It was for a job and did not belong to me.
then just try mounting manually, and try with some other drive, even a usb key should do the trick.
I already can do that, like I said in my original post. It's problems with all drives not automounting anymore which is what I have a problem with. It's not just one drive that has errors on it or something.
what I'm trying to say is that since you can't automount with any of your drives anymore, then it's not the drive that should be the issue.
You said "what if I have no longer access to the drive that made this mess?".
Maybe I misunderstood, but since you can manually mount them, then you do have access.
The lost automounting feature is the real issue.
Now maybe the drive initiated that issue. I know one of my drives is in FAT32, so there's that.
> I know one of my drives is in
> FAT32, so there's that.
Somehow I doubt this. I do all my backups in FAT for compatibility and I've
never had any problems.
I still have a problem with adding automounting to my netinstall. Maybe some of my attempts might prove useful to your case:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/mounting-hdd-or-dvd-both-thunar-and-pcmanfm-not-authorized-perform-operation
I know I've downloaded the dconf editor specifically to check this, but it was properly checked already.