How to mount a usb flash drive on Slackware

Slackware user · 03-02-2006, 06:01 AM

Hi, I was wondering how to mount a usb flash drive to my Slackware computer I edited the fstab and put sda1 in that then I made a directory called flash. Now when I use the command mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash it says not a vaild block device any help?

Thx

Panagiotis_IOA · 03-02-2006, 06:33 AM

I managed to mount my USB flash-disk on Slackware by following this tutorial:

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/...WTO/index.html

PS: This topic has been posted many times in the forum so with a little search you will find the proper information I think.

Slick666 · 03-02-2006, 06:34 AM

Relative newbie here but I didn't have to edit fstab to mount a flash drive the way you are mounting it.Try changing fstab back to the way it was and try it

Alsocheck you /dev/ directory for other st# entries just in case something else is already associated with sda1.

jomen · 03-02-2006, 07:59 AM

Do you have usb-support in the kernel - or the modules for this loaded?
It appears that this is not the case - else the device would exist when you plug it in.
What does your system see the device as - look in the logs when you plug it in and pull it out there should be some info
Check /etc/fstab again.