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Matthew Fairtlough wrote: > same error message: Cannot mount volume (mount point cannot contain > newline (??) or G_DIR_SEPARATOR (/) characters). > There is nothing relevant in /etc/fstab. > I can find no way of changing the mount point without > mounting the thing (which I obviously can't do). Yes you can. As root: mount -t auto [device] /mnt/tmp where device is probably /dev/sda1- since you are undoubtedly using udev, look at the list of device nodes in /dev - with udev only the ones that are connected will be present. The problem is that you are using the gui with an automounter (and probably HAL), and that is automatically trying to mount it under something like /media/[name of volume], and since the name of the volume contains a character which isn't allowed in a folder name, the automounter fails. A format will probably fix it, but there are other ways of changing the volume label. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html