Unable to mount the Flash Drive in RH9

gregorian · 10-13-2006, 07:39 PM

I plugged the USB drive into my computer while booting. I know that the drive has been installed as I can see it's name in the hardware browser.

As root, I type:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/flash
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda /mnt/flash
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda /mnt/flash

None of them work.

Here are the contents of my mount:

Code:

/dev/hdb2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,umask=0000)

So I type: mount -t usbdevfs /dev/sda /mnt/flash

It works, so I open my /mnt/flash and am greeted by a pile of garbage. I can't even unmount this.

Can somebody help me? Thanks you.

dcdbutler · 10-13-2006, 10:58 PM

check the outputs of

# dmesg | grep usb

# dmesg | grep sda

and/or

# fdisk -l

The device should be sda1, sda2 or sdb1, sdb2 etc, but not sda.

Cheers

kenji · 10-13-2006, 11:51 PM

have you tried compiling a new kernel or the driver of the flash drive
RH9 is obsolete so is the drivers maybe your problem is about the driver
i hope this helps| £Ä3

kwilliams · 10-15-2006, 02:24 PM

Try
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash thats how I mount my flash drive

Kelly Williams

Leisy · 10-15-2006, 03:09 PM

check fdisk -l /dev/sda to look what partition type and number you should use

IBall · 10-15-2006, 11:53 PM

And if you dont have a reason to use Redhat 9, update to a more modern distro. Using Redhat 9 now is like using Windows 95 - don't do it.

Most modern distros will automatically mount USB drives for you.

Fedora Core 5 (FC6 will be released soon) is the direct successor to RH9.

--Ian

gregorian · 10-17-2006, 04:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kwilliams

Try
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash thats how I mount my flash drive

Kelly Williams

Yes, this worked for me.

I seem to have a problem though:

If I issue the command umount /dev/sda1 , it says that the device is busy even if I'm not using it. How do I unmount it?

Wim Sturkenboom · 10-17-2006, 05:15 AM

Most often, this is as you're still in a directory on the flash disk. So cd out of there and umount.
There might be applications that access your device without you knowing it. Not sure how to check for that.

gregorian · 10-18-2006, 03:16 AM

Yes, I unmounted it. Thank you!