thumb drive

iarebob · 01-31-2005, 09:12 AM

i have a thumb drive that use for pretty much everything. the problem is that it does not seem to see it. how do i mount a thmb drive? whatr is it's name(like partion 1 is hda1 ect).

xushi · 01-31-2005, 09:35 AM

If you have Hotplug enabled, it makes life easier..

Plug in your thumbdrive, and then type
dmesg
You should see some information like

Code:

scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: Flash/SM  Model: Super Talent 2.0  Rev: 2040
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete
SCSI device sda: 506880 512-byte hdwr sectors (260 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 506880 512-byte hdwr sectors (260 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

Here, i notice that my pen drive is called sda. To mount, create a folder in your /mnt directory,

Code:

cd /mnt
mkdir pendrive

And then, mount your pendrive

Code:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/pendrive

That should do the trick.

EDIT: Make sure your pendrive is not formatted as NTFS, otherwise you won't be able to write anything to it.

EDIT: To automate the proccess, assuming your pendrive is formatted as fat or fat32, edit your fstab

Code:

pico /etc/fstab

add the following line

Code:

/dev/sda1       /mnt/pendrive    vfat            defaults        1  0

and save

Code:

ctrl + x

Now all you have to type is

Code:

mount /mnt/pendrive

iarebob · 01-31-2005, 02:04 PM

nope didn't work i did it exactly as you said(and several otherways) and when ever i go to mount it says that the special device does not exist. i have tryed sda and sda1.

Shade · 01-31-2005, 03:00 PM

If you're running a stock kernel, you may have to do

Code:

modprobe usb-storage

Then, plug in the thumb drive. Run dmesg, and at the end you should see the lines referred to above, from the previous poster's tips.
At that point, mount /mnt/whatever should work just fine

--Shade

iarebob · 02-01-2005, 06:34 AM

worked like a charm. thx

Shade · 02-01-2005, 03:33 PM

Cool.

Now add modprobe usb-storage to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and it'll load on boot everytime.

--Shade