Accesing removable USB storage device?

cucolin@ · 02-18-2004, 07:20 PM

Hi people, I connected my USB removable storage device but I'm not able to see the files. How do I accomplish this?? I use RH8.

Thanks..

Andrew Benton · 02-18-2004, 07:36 PM

I would play it safe and plug it in before you boot. Then open a terminal and enter
dmesg
it should say something about your USB device and about where it's put it, possibly sda1. make a folder somewhere to mount it. Possibly /home/username/USB ? Then as root issue the command
mount /dev/sda1 /home/username/USB
You might need to change the ownership of the files so you can write to the device.
chown -R username:usergroup /home/username/USB
In the above, change username and usergroup for words that make sense on your system.

ac1980 · 02-19-2004, 08:10 AM

Maybe the correct kernel module is loaded automatically, but if not try giving (as root) modprobe usb-storage and then retry to mount /dev/sda1