Are USB flashdrives hot pluggable in Linux?

tzonkov · 10-23-2003, 06:31 PM

Basically I have seen a lot of posts on here suggesting that to get a USB pen drive (flashdrive) working the system must be rebooted. Does Linux not support hot plugging USB devices?

misophist · 10-23-2003, 08:13 PM

I change the cards in my flash card reader without doing anything special. Sounds to me like it's supported. The OS was installed with the reader in place so I don't know about initial rebooting. Easy to find out, though.

IRIGHTI · 10-23-2003, 09:56 PM

I can hot plug my usb keyboard and it works fine. (go from ps/2 to usb)

However i can't get the lilo prompt to recognize it.

powersakthi · 07-06-2005, 11:26 PM

Hi,
I have a USb Thumbdrive which i need to use to move files of larger size from my P.C to my friends p.c both we are using Redhat 7.2 but the problem is that when i insert my thumbdrive my p.c gets hangs plz. provide assistance