mounting and unmounting USB drives

Ian D · 10-15-2005, 01:48 PM

This ia a real newbie sort of question.

I am running FC4. I have an external disk drive with a USB connection. When I connect the USB drive, almost immediately it becomes available as /media/usbdisk/

My question, when I have finished writing to the disk, do I just unplug it or do I (as I suspect) have to unmount it? If so, how/what command?

Ian

SlackerLX · 10-15-2005, 02:14 PM

Example:
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk -o users,gid=100,umask=002

* /dev/sdb1 - device is a subject of change, for it may vary
* vfat - may be replaced by "auto"
* to unmount use "umount /dev/XXX" -XXX stands for mounted device

phil.d.g · 10-15-2005, 02:21 PM

If I'm not mistaken, Fedora Core puts an icon for the usb drive on the desktop?

If so, right click on it and choose unmount

Brian1 · 10-15-2005, 02:45 PM

If using KDE then you can have an icon come up. Goto Start Menu > Control Center > Desktop > Behavior > Device Icons. Check the Show Device Icon and then check all the others below or only the ones you want. If using Gnome I do not the answer to this. Maybe one that works with gnome can post if there is any setup needed or how to do it if possible.

Brian1