how can i browse data from pen drive in redhat linux 9

dhir_dhiru · 01-03-2009, 06:40 AM

hi all i am new in linux.

so how can i browse data from my pen drive.

sycamorex · 01-03-2009, 07:56 AM

It needs to be mounted under certain directories first. It could be /mnt or /media or any place you want in your home directory. If it doesn't mount automatically you need to look into 2 commands: fdisk and mount

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fdisk -l

fdisk, when run as root, will print the partition table of your hard disk(s). Once you've identified which one is your pendrive (could be /dev/sda or /dev/sdb or something similar) you'll need to mount it.

Assuming that your pendrive is /dev/sda and it's formatted in ext3 and you want to mount it in your home directory in the pendrive directory, it would be as follows:

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mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /path/to/pendrive -rw

/dev/sda refers to the whole hard disk, whereas /dev/sda1 refers to the first partition of /dev/sda1

for more information on 'mount' and 'fdisk' check their man pages.

Nylex · 01-03-2009, 08:25 AM

Red Hat 9 is obsolete and no longer receives any updates of any kind. You'd be wise to install a newer distribution.

dhir_dhiru · 01-05-2009, 02:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sycamorex

It needs to be mounted under certain directories first. It could be /mnt or /media or any place you want in your home directory. If it doesn't mount automatically you need to look into 2 commands: fdisk and mount

fdisk, when run as root, will print the partition table of your hard disk(s). Once you've identified which one is your pendrive (could be /dev/sda or /dev/sdb or something similar) you'll need to mount it.

Assuming that your pendrive is /dev/sda and it's formatted in ext3 and you want to mount it in your home directory in the pendrive directory, it would be as follows:

/dev/sda refers to the whole hard disk, whereas /dev/sda1 refers to the first partition of /dev/sda1

for more information on 'mount' and 'fdisk' check their man pages.

thanks man

its work