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external drives refuse to mount

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dove
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external drives refuse to mount

#1 Post by dove »

I'm running stretch with opnbox . external drives (SD cards, thumb drives, external hard drives) refuse to mount suddenly saying (Failed to mount " Volume" Not authorized to perform operation). everything was working fine. Any help would be very nice

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Re: external drives refuse to mount

#2 Post by GarryRicketson »

Do you think it would help somone to help you, if you give some details about how you are trying to mount them ? I can not guess why the devices don't
mount based on what you have said.

Example, this is how I mount a device, and it works:

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$su
$password:
#mount /dev/sd1i usb 
#
#exit 
$cd usb
$
Of course , in your case you would be showing how you try to mount the device, but it does not work.

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man mount
Might help.

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Re: external drives refuse to mount

#3 Post by maximus1978 »

Please post output of....

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fdisk -l

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Re: external drives refuse to mount

#4 Post by None1975 »

dove wrote:I'm running stretch with opnbox . external drives (SD cards, thumb drives, external hard drives) refuse to mount suddenly saying (Failed to mount " Volume" Not authorized to perform operation). everything was working fine. Any help would be very nice
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Re: external drives refuse to mount

#5 Post by GarryRicketson »

That is my point, without knowing anything about how the OP is trying to mount
the devices, everything else is just guessing.
I use openbox myself, but I mount devices manually, if a file manager is involved, we need to know which one, also:
everything was working fine
What did the OP do, that might of changed things, maybe a recent update ?
I wish people would be more clear and include details that we could use to help.
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


P.S. This is not of much use:
Please post output of....

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    fdisk -l 

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$ fdisk -l
fdisk: option requires an argument -- l
usage: fdisk [-egvy] [-i|-u] [-b #] [-c # -h # -s #] [-f mbrfile] [-l # ] disk
        -b: specify special boot partition block count; requires -i
        -chs: specify disk geometry; all three must be specified
        -e: interactively edit MBR or GPT
        -f: specify non-standard MBR template
        -g: initialize disk with GPT; requires -i
        -i: initialize disk with MBR unless -g is also specified
        -l: specify LBA block count; cannot be used with -chs
        -u: update MBR code; preserve partition table
        -v: print the MBR, the Primary GPT and the Secondary GPT
        -y: do not ask questions
`disk' may be of the forms: sd0 or /dev/rsd0c.
But any way, thanks for trying to help the OP, without any details I don't
see how any one can really help.
The output of :

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$ lsblk -l 
NAME MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda    8:0    0    50G  0 disk 
sda1   8:1    0    49G  0 part /
sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part 
sda5   8:5    0   996M  0 part [SWAP]
sr0   11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
$
might help, it would show if the devices are detected.

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