I have checked and my my Atache' pen drive does mount, I know this because I opend a terminal and typed in usbview with my pendrive connected, and it got all the information about the pendrive, how can I view the contents of my pen drive...I am running on FC1

You could try mounting it with (after logging as su)

In /mnt/removable directory, you should be able to see the content... That's how I mount!

cheers!

I only have 2 folders in my mnt directory, cdrom, and floppy, do I just make a new folder for the pen drive?

Hi

this is how i mount my usb memory stick
root#mkdir /mnt/usbmem

then as user

user$mount -t vfat umask=0000 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbmem

to unmount

user$umount /mnt/usbmem

or add the following in the /etc/fstab file

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbmem vfat noauto,user 0 0

right click the desktop, click 'create new' -> hard disk ->device tab
from the drop down box pick
/dev/sda1 (/mnt/usbmem)
this will put an access icon on your desktop, just like a cd or floppy. plug in the usb memory stick and double click the icon to mount it.

regards
GT

You must make that removable directory in /mnt... Sorry I forgot to mention that

Any way to do it without going into the command line?

No need to create a new directory...
Feel free to mount it on any directory;-)

after using globeTrotter suggestion I got the usb pendrive mounted and I can view the contets, but I can only mount and unmount as root, can I just add my username after user? so that my username can mount and unmount the drive?

Thanks globeTrotter!

Just the info I was looking for. On to the next issue!

cheers

after not getting a reply all day I decided to play around with the fstab file and got it so that anyone logged in can mount the USB pendrive, thanks for your help

I never got the command line to work. Kept coming back with mount help as if
there was a syntax error. But the fstab entry is exactly what I wanted anyway.
Works like a charm.

cheers

Hi

Glad i could help, good to see others managed to get their usb devices working too. Sorry for not being here for a few days. I went fishing over the weekend. lifes like that in the tropics!!!!!

regards
GT

#mkdir /mnt/pen
#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/pen
#vi /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /mnt/pen auto defaults,noauto,users 0 0