I got a cosair usb stick, and it says its compatiable with linux but I do not have a clue on how to access it, seeing as i just reinstall linux after my kernel crash I dont have a clue on how to access the usb stick and make use of it, anyhelp would be nice,

Thanks

Master_Fox

Search the forums, this has been answered over a million times.

well then atleast could you give me some keywords, to search on, so far i had no luck at all and I did do a search before posting this thread

Ok, well i got sda1 and stuff but how do i know which usb is what I have about 5 on my pc but how do i find out which one is which???

Edit: Thanks, for getting me to search I worked out how to do it

Ok, here is a trick I like for USB drives, (haven't tried this on Slackware lately, but assume it should work...). First type this command in a terminal:
tail -f /var/log/messages
Now stick in the usb drive and watch the messages. You should see the device get detected, and what SCSI device it gets mapped to. Now just mount it where you want. Oh, and type "Ctrl-C" to quit the "tail" command. Example: say it is mapped in as sdd drive, you could then mount it with the command:
mount -t vfat /dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb
This example assumes the directory /mnt/usb exists, modify as needed.
HTH.

thanks for that, that helped me loads also it works

In Slackware, generally a "mount /dev/sda /mnt/[mountpoint]" works for me. I added it into my fstab and just clickety-click a little "mount /mnt/usb" and it works fine every time.

Hi Poetics,
Is /dev/sda a typo? Did you mean /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 for example?
I have a USB key and an iRiver that get mounted on different sda partitions - I'd love to be able to have just the one line in my /etc/fstab, but using that syntax doesn't work for me. I get the error 'mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda'.

Sorry, yeah that was a typo -- /dev/sda1 is the correct setting.

sda1, in my experience, refers to the first USB item that gets mounted, so if I put an mp3 player on it'd also mount as sda1 if I were to load it first

Don't forget to do "umount /mnt/usb" and then "eject /dev/sdXX" afterwards!