[SOLVED] Mounting USB flash drive in Mandrake 9.2

sin667 · 09-13-2011, 01:25 PM

I am having issues with networking on my mandrake box, though everything appears to be configured properly.

So a workaround I have found that works is to burn my files to a disk and transferring them to that machine that way. This is time consuming and wasteful. I would prefer to copy them to a flash drive, and not waste the disks as I send multiple files a week over that that box.

I have tried something I found on another forum:

Code:

[imdeemvp@localhost imdeemvp]$ cd /mnt/ <-as user cd yourself to the mnt folder and become root to create directory
[imdeemvp@localhost mnt]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost mnt]# mkdir usbflash <- this created a directory in the mnt folder

[root@localhost mnt]# ls /mnt/ <-this command listed all my directories the mnt folder
cdrom cdrom1 floppy usbflash

[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash <-this is the command to mount flash card reader

When I run the command "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash" I get a error on the return:

Code:

/dev/sda1 looks like swapspace - not mounted
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Not sure what that means as I am not too versed in linux, but I would assume my flash drive is not located at sda1, and unsure how to check that. The only other usb device I have connected is my mouse.

Any help would be great. I know this is a forum for Mandriva, but it seems the closest to my mandrake 9.2.

Thanks.

michaelk · 09-13-2011, 01:55 PM

The original distribution name was called Mandrake and was changed to Mandriva due to legal issues.

Mandrake 9.2 being release in 2003 is a bit on the old side. Are you using IDE(PATA), SCSI or SATA drives?

Look at the output of the command with the USB drive connected
fdisk -l (that is a small L and you must be root)

You should see a list of all disks even the flash drive and then you can determine the device ID.

The flash drive is probably FAT32 and so will be mounted:
mount -t vfat /dev/sdxy /mnt/usbflash

sin667 · 09-13-2011, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

The original distribution name was called Mandrake and was changed to Mandriva due to legal issues.

Mandrake 9.2 being release in 2003 is a bit on the old side. Are you using IDE(PATA), SCSI or SATA drives?

Yea, sadly it's the only distro I can use with this scsi printer, and ancient rip software.

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

Look at the output of the command with the USB drive connected
fdisk -l (that is a small L and you must be root)

You should see a list of all disks even the flash drive and then you can determine the device ID.

This only shows my 2 hard drives, one scsi, one ide.

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

The flash drive is probably FAT32 and so will be mounted:
mount -t vfat /dev/sdxy /mnt/usbflash

It is fat32, i just formatted it with my PC. That command returned an error

Code:

 mount: special device /dev/sdxy does not exist

sin667 · 09-13-2011, 02:24 PM

Whoops, my bad it was not plugged in when I ran the fdisk -l.

It showed up under dev/scsi/host3/bus()/target()/lun()/part1

Not sure why it's under scsi...

michaelk · 09-13-2011, 02:41 PM

sdxy where x = a-z and y from 1-16. Look at the output of the fdisk command to get the exact numbers.

What is the output for the command.
ls -l /dev/scsi/host3/bus()/target()/lun()/part1

You should be able to mount the device as
mount -t vfat /dev/scsi/host3/bus()/target()/lun()/part1 /mnt/usbflash

sin667 · 09-14-2011, 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

You should be able to mount the device as
mount /dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/usbflash

This worked. Thanks. I would assume I just use the umount command to remove the drive.

michaelk · 09-14-2011, 10:20 AM

Either
umount /mnt/usbflash
or
umount /dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/part1