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I just upgraded to 12.10 and one of my media hard drives won't mount. The drive shows up on /dev/sda but doesn't mount. dmesg|tail 

[  289.496933] FAT-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
[  292.502310] FAT-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
[  299.540914] FAT-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
[  307.700473] FAT-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
[  307.804819] FAT-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
[  698.017043] FAT-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
[  703.933411] FAT-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
[  704.055936] FAT-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
[  706.293292] FAT-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
[ 1134.268187] FAT-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
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  • I may have found part of the problem.The file system is FAT (32-bit version). It mounted fine in 12.04 but mount in 12.10 64-bit
    – Peter Schriver
    Oct 26, 2012 at 0:49
  • My NTFS formatted drive mounts fine. I guess my question should be changed to: Will a FAT (32-bit version) formatted drive that mounted in 12.04 fail to mount properly in 12.10?
    – Peter Schriver
    Oct 26, 2012 at 1:06
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    I think I may have found the problem here bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/… but it doesn't explain the work around well enough for me to fix my problem. Any help would be appreciated
    – Peter Schriver
    Oct 26, 2012 at 19:37

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Since this bug still exists in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I post the following solution that I actually found on the link you posted in your last comment :

try comment=x-gvfs-show instead of comment=gvfs-show (instead of x-gvfs-show)

For people using Disks utility, just uncheck "Show in user interface" in the Mount Options of the partition, and then add comment=x-gvfs-show in the list of options below Symbolic Icon Name :

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This should fix the issue.

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