weird removable media behavior

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Apr 18 00:20:02 UTC 2007


Michael Klinosky wrote:
> For my digital camera (CF media), I have a USB card reader (i.e. remove
> card from camera and put into reader).
> 
> When I plug the reader in, I get 2 icons on the desktop [Removable
> Volume and Removable Volume (2)], and 2 gThumb instances
> [/media/disk/dcim and /media/disk-1/dcim]
> 
> Why? What do I tweak so that I get only 1 of each?
> 
> There is an entry for System - Prefs - Removable Drive and Media -
> Cameras: "import ..." is checked; command: gthumb-import %h
> 
> N.b.: I have FC 6 and gnome.
> 
When you have the reader plugged in, run "mount" and see what it
thinks is mounted. If you can determine the device of the CF card,
run "fdisk -l <CF devie>" to see how many partitions Linux thinks
the card has.

Mikkel
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