USB drives in Mandriva

NoobDave · 07-21-2006, 10:36 AM

Hi,

I'm running the latest version of Mandriva and everything seems to be going smoothly except for the fact that whenever I put a file onto a USB drive (I've tried it on several) as soon as I remove the device, it becomes empty (i.e. I can't put anything onto USB drives)

Anybody got any ideas about what I should do?

Cheers

Dave

sdexp · 07-21-2006, 10:47 AM

If you had to mount the USB drive onto the system via something like /dev/sda1 onto a directory such as /mnt/removable using

Code:

mount /dev/sda1

after you plugged in the drive, then you should unmount it also after you are finished before unplugging with

Code:

umount /dev/sda1

. If you already did that then try some other umount options such as -l to ensure applications are finished accessing it or -f to unmount the drive regardless.

NoobDave · 07-22-2006, 03:08 PM

I did what you said and now it wont let me write to the USB device any more. It says that I don't have permissions (which I do) even when I try it from root!

Are there any known-issues with USB devices in Mandriva?

Any help would greatly be appreciated as my USB drive is very important for my work

Cheers

Dave

sdexp · 07-23-2006, 11:08 AM

For that matter you may have to edit your /etc/fstab file.

I will tell you that in my fstab file my USB drive entry is this:

Code:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto user,kudzu,exec,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0

This shows that anyone can mount it (by including the "user" parameter). You could also add the "rw" parameter for read-write accessibility.

Make sure the directory mounted to (in my case this would be /mnt/removable) also has read-write permissions (chmod 0765 or something like that).

NoobDave · 07-24-2006, 12:36 PM

Thanks alot, it works!

However, I need to do this everytime I boot up the computer. Is there some way to make it more permanent? Like I said, I'm quite new to linux so am probably missing something obvious.

Thanks for all of your help

Dave