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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
USB Mount Points in Ubuntu (and Gnome)
So I saw you can manually set the mount point for a USB drive in gnome. Great! That's handy! Not so fast.. See, in the box below I entered "/media/cruzer4" rather than just cruzer4. Ooops! This causes the mount to fail when you next plug the stick in, and worse still: You can't get back to the properties screen to fix it! What to do? It's actually quite simple!
- Press Alt+F2 or open a terminal
- Type "gconf-editor"
- Navigate to /system/storage/volumes/ and locate your specific drive as per the screenshot
- Now change the value of "mount_point" to "cruzer4" instead of "/media/cruzer4" and you're good to go!
The drive should now be mountable again!
