This happened to me as well, on drives where I had written a DVD .iso image. The DVD image would still mount, even though there was nothing there, after I repartitioned and reformatted.

I used "wipefs" on the device to clean out the old file system tags. All of them. Then repartition, reformat, and only the active partition showed up.

Maybe some experimentation would allow for a "wipefs" command that only wiped the "macUSBdrive" tags, but I didn't spend that much time on it.

Curt-

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Thierry de Coulon tdecoulon@gmail.com wrote:

Hello all,

I've installed openSUSE 42.2 and so upgraded to TDE 14.0.4 (previously I couldn't on my old 13.1, something broke so I stayed at 14.0.0).

I don't know which of the two is responsible, but now, when I plug in an external drive, it gets mounted twice. On my desktop I see the drive itself, and the partition. For example, when I plug in my 16GB mac formated usb key, I get both "14.8 GB removable device", mounted on /deb/sdg, and "macUSBDrive", mounted on /dev/sdg1.

Of course the former throws an error if I try to open it.

This is not so bad and I can live with it, but I wonder where this is distribution specific, machine specific or if you all see this too.

Regards,

Thierry

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Thierry de Coulon composed on 2017-02-26 21:52 (UTC+0100):

I've installed openSUSE 42.2 and so upgraded to TDE 14.0.4 (previously I couldn't on my old 13.1, something broke so I stayed at 14.0.0).

I don't know which of the two is responsible, but now, when I plug in an external drive, it gets mounted twice. On my desktop I see the drive itself, and the partition. For example, when I plug in my 16GB mac formated usb key, I get both "14.8 GB removable device", mounted on /deb/sdg, and "macUSBDrive", mounted on /dev/sdg1.

Of course the former throws an error if I try to open it.

This is not so bad and I can live with it, but I wonder where this is distribution specific, machine specific or if you all see this too.

Better to get two mount attempts than none. :-p

I just tried inserting a "16GB" USB stick on a 42.2/14.0.4 system, host g5eas, and got no notification of any kind, though dmesg certainly shows it, and scsi_dh_alua module is loaded. But, booted to TW/Plasma, same dmesg, and no device notification there either. 42.1/14.0.4 on same host likewise malfunctions.

I tried a different 42.2/14.0.4 host gx745, also with TW/Plasma, with same failing result on both. :-(

I tried a third 42.2/14.0.4 host big31, also with TW/KDE3, with same failing result on both. Same failure on it too booting Stretch/14.0.5pre. :-(

A 4th host gx780 tried only with 42.2 and KDE3 also fails to notify or mount, with dmesg similar to 2nd attachment. Booted to Jessie running bpo 4.8.11 and 14.0.4 likewise produces no notification, but at least fdisk found it. I updated Jessie, including bpo 4.9.2, and there's still no notification, plus dmesg is loaded with i915 driver segfaults.

Hosts gx745 and big31 booted to openSUSE 42.1/KDE3 pop up a device notification as expected. :-p

All four machines have Intel CPU/chipsets, with video Intel gx745 & gx780 (both Dell), Radeon big31 (Biostar) and Geforce g5eas (Gigabyte).