usb drive

thornton · 06-25-2004, 01:05 AM

I have a USB flash drive. But fedora core 2 wont recognize it.

What do I need to do to enable this support?

Thanks

guessme · 07-15-2004, 11:57 AM

go to terminal and do
#fdisk -l
then you should see some drive like sda1 or sda* *-some number for ur usb drive

then
#mkdir /mnt/flashdrive
#mount /dev/sda* /mnt/flashdrive

*-number for ur usb drive

then u can see ur flash drive files in /mnt/flashdrive

after u finished working just umount the drive before plugging out

#umount /mnt/flashdrive

i hope this will work

guessme

ajmatson · 07-15-2004, 12:03 PM

I was woundering if the USB mount worked? I use MEPIS mainly and it recognizes all of my storage even NTFS mounts and lets me access them. I am starting to learn Fedora too so I will need this to work. Maybe I'll just have to try it.

Ryan_moure · 07-22-2004, 04:35 PM

I tried the same thing with fedora core 2, but ended up without the rights to write to or erase data on the flash drive. mine was a Sandisk Cruizer mini 128 MB. I don't know if I'm doing anything wrong either, but I've had no success.
ryan_moure

Ryan_moure · 07-22-2004, 05:18 PM

Always make sure if you don't have fat 32 built into your kernel or you didn't build the kernel that your drive is formatted with fat not fat 32.
that was my mistake

Ryan_moure

tcomputerchip · 09-23-2004, 03:10 AM

try this,
go to terminal and do
#su
Password:
#mkdir /mnt/flashdrive
#mount /dev/sda* /mnt/flashdrive
#chmod 660 /mnt/flashdrive
or
#chmod 660 /dev/sda*

tcomputerchip · 09-23-2004, 03:14 AM

Oh, if that does not work.

Try changing the line in your 'fstab'
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda* auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

change auto to vfat
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda* vfat noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

That may work. Also you can change owner to user:
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda* vfat noauto,user,kudzu 0 0

db391 · 09-23-2004, 05:58 AM

modprobe usb-storage should enable usb stick support
then mount either:

mount /dev/sda /mnt/usb
--- or ---
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

either of these comands work