trouble mounting USB
 

i have a serial ATA hdd, and i'm using slackware 10.2, my hdd reads as /dev/sda so my root is /dev/sda1 /dev/sda5 is my swap partition, i'm trying to mount my usb, without using x, what should my usb be in fstab ..../dev/???..........the usb is generally for winxp but i'm using slackware 10.2 on this computer and it works fine, i'm using a sandisk micro cruzer 2 gig jump drive....if that helps any

PLug it in and then check your log files..

tail /var/log/dmesg
tail /var/log/messages

One of those log files should show the USB drive being plugged in and what /dev/sdx was assigned to it.

it only shows what /dev/xxx i've assigned it and it won't mount, anybody know the file system for that usb? i tryedbut it didn't work...i've tryed many other /dev/xxx points but everytime i get it is not a valid fat fs type

You can find out which sda devs have been detected by

and
then use mount like so

where xxx is the appropriate fs, device and mount point. Be sure the /mnt/xxx actually exists.

What is the exact error messae you get when yuo try to mount the drive ?

Did you create the directory /mnt/usb you are trying to mount the drive to ?

if you have a Seiral ATA Hard drive the it is /dev/sda , when you plug in a USB drive it would most likely be assigned /dev/sdb so to mount it

mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

checking dmesg log after pluggin in the drive should confirm that..

nevermind i figured it out, the correct syntax was