how to cofigure USB flash drive?

wrangler · 03-11-2005, 06:27 AM

Hi,
Can anyone give pointers or links which explain how to configure portable usb flash drives. I have mandrake 10.1

thanks,
Sen

db391 · 03-11-2005, 06:40 AM

If you mean getting them to work, that means adding a line to your /etc/fstab:

Code:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1 vfat user,noauto,rw,sync,noexec 0 0

Also mkdir /mnt/usb and KDE (or gnome) will add the USB (sda1) to the devices.

wrangler · 03-11-2005, 07:37 AM

thanks for that but in: /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1 vfat user,noauto,rw,sync,noexec 0 0 should it be sda1 or ...

rpz · 03-11-2005, 09:40 AM

I have no experience of flash drives in Mandrake, but in Fedora, the drives appear under /dev/sdaN, where N is not constant (for example, right now my USB drive is /dev/sda4). I prefer to use hald to automount them when plugged in (they pop up on the desktop just like in winxp/osx). This daemon takes care of all the hassle with fstab lines. This is default in Fedora, in mandrake you might have to install it yourself.

BroX · 03-11-2005, 10:02 AM

Anyone any idea why some flash drives work well, while others seem not to be recognised?
fstab line is

Code:

/dev/sda1        /mnt/usbflash    vfat        noauto,user,owner,uid=1000        
0   0

Cheers, Leon.
[edit] Running Slack current, kernel 2.4.29