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Hi, I'm v. new to linux, but am picking it up quick. If I plug a USB stick straight in should FC4 automatically mount it. If not, could someone tell me how to mount it, I have looked on the net but most guides assume it mounted automatically.
Do I have to run kudzu every time I want to access my drive, or can I make it auto mount it every time, and also. I unmounted it, then plugged it back in, ran kudzu again, and it didnt remount, should it?. I would like it if I could automunt it just like windows, I dnt mind unmounting it.
Everytime u need to use it, but if u include to boot usb drive in fstab, then u need not, use kudzu everytime.
You can also try plugging the pendrive before boot , so while booting the usb/firewire devices wud be detected not mounted unless included in fstab file which can be found in the /etc dir.
Mounting it and unmounting it needs to be done everytime. In layman terms, mounting is a process used to help u access the filesystem/device in linux.
The situation seems to have got worse, I can now no longer get my stick to mount whatever I do, running kudzu as root does nothing, and leaving it in when I reboot does nothing. Any ideas, I would like it so that I dont have to reboot with it in, and am just able to plug it in (and mount it (or do something else to access it)) and unmount it as I wish.
Any info would be great, Buck
Last edited by BuckRogers01; 06-29-2005 at 04:29 PM.
I can't find what 'sda' my USB stick is, its not sda1 (thats my HD), and sda and sda2 are apperently already mounted. I'm not sure if my stick is showing up at all. Can anyone help me?
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