Attaching USB compact flash reader in Fedora

carjumble · 12-27-2003, 01:40 PM

I have just plugged in a USB card reader to transfer some images from my digital camera. In the hardware browser I can see the drive as dev/sda but I have no idea how to access the data on the card - I don't appear to be able to navigate through the directory structure to access sda1 ... What am I doing wrong (apart from being a complete newbie!)

poison · 12-27-2003, 01:46 PM

you only need to mount it ^^
create a mountpoint:

Code:

mkdir /mnt/usbstick

add the following line to your /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/sda1        /mnt/usbstick    auto        noauto,users,rw 0 0

then you can always mount it with the command

Code:

mount /mnt/usbstick

you'll find the contents in /mnt/usbstick

regards =D

carjumble · 12-27-2003, 04:30 PM

Hi - just tried that and it told me that I had to specify a file system??

nexx_au · 12-27-2003, 09:48 PM

change the 'auto' to 'vfat'

that's if your usbstick is a fat32 filesystem, which it most probbaly is.