[Discuss] mount problem

[worley at alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)]

> From: dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us>

> my memory sticks always mount on /run/media/moylan for
> both computers.
> [...]

Only when reading this the second time did I realize why it seems odd to
me -- you say "the memory stick mounts ..".  But the memory stick does
not "mount", it "is mounted" -- by whatever executes the kernel mount(2)
call.  So what you really observed was that whatever normally mounted
your memory stick was failing to do so.  The easy case is if the media
contents are damaged to the point that you can't mount it with mount(1),
but if that's not the case, you've got to find whatever does the
mounting and diagnose its problem.

Dale