Hi there,

I am using Red Hat 9.0 and I want to use a USB Flash Memory to save my files. I don't know what I have to do to use it.

some "mount" or something.

please, help me.

thanks

most of the usb memory sticks/keys/etc are recognized as scsi-drives I think...so when you plug it in, it should be something like /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 or such. see if you get something like that in /dev when plugging it in...after that simply mount it with the mount command, or if you want to use it more easily, create a new fstab entry for it (edit /etc/fstab):

/dev/sdaX /mnt/mountpoint vfat user,noauto 0 0

where X is a number, depending on what the device file is called (try sda1 first..), and /mnt/mountpoint is the place where you want it to be mounted (where you can access it)

after this, save fstab, and then simply

where /mnt/mountpoint is the mount point you wrote in fstab, and the device ought to be ready for use. unmount with

Yup. My Flashmate card reader with a CF card plugged in is seen as dev/sda1. I just edited ftstab to mount it at /mnt/cf, created an empty directory called /mnt/cf and mounted it.

Dear all;

I have mounted my usb flash memory with Redhat Linux.
I Linux, I can copy and delete files with flash memory, but I can't see those files on Windows XP.
And Vice Versa, file created or copied from Windows XP to the flah memory, can't be seen when the flash memory is mounted on Linux system.
i.e. each OS can see only its related files on the flas memory.
This cause me a problem that I can't copy my Windows XP files to Linux.

Any Suggestions


Eng. Areen Roman
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