Mounting USB HD in FC2

dysfunction · 11-02-2004, 04:45 PM

I have FedoraCore2, and I recently purchased an Archos Gmini 120 20 gb hard-drive mp3 player/data wallet. Unlike IPods, these are supposed to be recognized as standard USB external hard drives, and my Windows partition and my old mac recognized it fine. FC2 shows it as sda1, but I can't figure out how to mount it. I imagine it should work because it is formatted as a standard FAT32 USB HD.

mjrich · 11-02-2004, 05:38 PM

Any success with <mount /dev/sda1> ?

If it can't recognize the filesystem type (i.e. an error to this effect is returned when attempting to mount from an X shell) then you may need to replace 'auto' with 'fat32' in the /dev/sda1 entry in /etc/fstab.

Cheers,

mj

michaelk · 11-02-2004, 05:49 PM

FYI

mkdir /mnt/player
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/player

Replace player with the directory name of your choice.