Mounting USB stick in Fedora14

fabe856 · 04-16-2012, 07:53 AM

Hi,
I am unable mount USB stick(we call it Pen drive) in Fedora 14. Its icon is appearing in Computer but when i click on it , message displayed is
"unable to mount" "Not Authorized" . Few days back I was able to mount it, i don't know what happened. Plz help, it is urgent.

Regards
Fabe

jstephens84 · 04-16-2012, 08:22 AM

Normally Not Authorized means that it is trying to mount with your permissions. Try going to a terminal and typing

Code:

'su - '

This will put you in root

Code:

'fdisk -l'

and get the /dev/sdyX (y will be partition letter IE a or b and X will be partition number.) Then try to mount it to /media

Code:

'mount /dev/sdyX /media/usb'

You may have to create the /media/usb folder space first. IF you can mount the drive then we know you have the correct filesystem driver and that it is truely a permissions problem.

fabe856 · 04-16-2012, 09:08 AM

Thanks for your reply
i restarted the system and it started working but yesterday I had done the same without success. Good Luck

Regards
Fabe.

John VV · 04-16-2012, 02:58 PM

fabe856
Be advised fedora 14 has been UNSUPPORTED for 6 months now .
It is ADVISED that you stay current and install fedora 16
Next month fedora 17 is coming out and 30 days later fedora 15 will be going End Of Life .