USB flash drive and Fedora Core 2

darkflounder · 09-12-2004, 10:34 PM

256MB PNY Attache formatted in FAT16 (need to use with Windows PCs at school)
Fedora Core 2
Dell Inspiron 5100

I can mount the drive using

Code:

mount -t auto /dev/sba1 /mnt/flashdrive

but only as root, and then read-only. I've tried using some setting I've seen here in /etc/fstab, but when I run

Code:

mount -a

the flash drive doesn't mount.

I'd like the drive to automount to either the desktop or the home directory. I know it can be done (saw it working on a Mandrake installation).

lou IbmiX XI · 09-13-2004, 03:17 AM

The fstab settings must look like this:

"/dev/sda1 /mnt/flashdrive auto noauto,user,owner 0 0"

but if you want it as your /home directory you have to change the line with:

"/dev/sda1 /home auto user,owner 0 0"

i think. Sometimes, kudzu is the cause of some strange mounting problem, so if you have kudzu as an option in your fstab, you can try to delete it.

darkflounder · 09-13-2004, 07:47 AM

The line in my /etc/fstab is currently

Code:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/flashdrive auto noauto,user,owner 0 0

but the drive does not mount with mount -a.

I know the drive can be seen. When I do

Code:

mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/flashdrive

I can see the contents of the drive, but cannot modify the contents as a normal user.

Any other ideas?

KingofBLASH · 09-13-2004, 12:48 PM

Did you ever figure out how to make your flash drive work? I am having the same problems and found your thread while googling...

Thanks,

Dan

sirclif · 09-13-2004, 01:03 PM

whatever your fstab looks like:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/flashdrive auto noauto,user,owner 0 0

just use the mount point to mount it (/mnt/flashdrive)

$ mount /mnt/flashdrive

you can do this as a user, and have read-write permissions.

lou IbmiX XI · 09-14-2004, 01:50 AM

If the setting noauto is specified, "mount -a" won't mount your flashdrive. "mount -a" mount all devices which don't have this setting (or which have the "auto" setting specified). With the setting "owner", the user who have mount the device is the owner of it, so are you sure that you aren't root when you mount it? "user" is to permit all users to mount the device, not just root.