USB Pendrive
 

Hi all,
I would like to know how to hotplug USB Pendrive after MDK9.2 loaded with KDE environment. If I forgot to attache the Pendrive before booting, I can not mount it and even if it is mounted, I can not go into its directory.
Is there any line to be added to fstab or other setting file to make it plug and play ?
Thanks in advance.

Amri

Hi all,
I still do not know how to hot plug USB pendrive after MDK9.2 finished to load system. When I issue command "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable" as root, it looked the this device was mounted, but I can not open directory in it. I have to re-booting with USB pendrive already attached :(
Is there a way to overcome this problem ?
Thanks in advance.

After rebooting with pen drive in, edit fstab and remove kudzu option from the supermount line. It'll then behave just like the floppy and CD-ROM do.

Thanks Crito,
I will try your advice and back to you with result.

Hi Crito,
I have looked into by box and this is my /etc/fstab :

== fstab ====

/dev/hda8 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda7 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda10 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,sync,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/removable vfat umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda9 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

== end of fstab ====

As you can see above, there is no reference to kudzu.
What should I do next ?
Thanks in advance.

That's because kudzu deletes the entry automagically (very annoying.) You said it works when you boot with the pen drive in. If you check while it's working, I believe you'll see a supermount entry in fstab for it. If not, here's the line from my fstab:

none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0

If the mount point doesn't already exist you'll need to create it manually.

Just noticed you already have an fstab entry for /dev/sda1. If you want to use supermount with your pen drive you'll need to delete that line. If you don't want to use supermount, then I suggest you use the boards search function to peruse the dozen similar threads in the hardware forum, as your problem isn't Mandrake specific.

Thanks Crito, really appreciate your helps on linux.
Will do what you advised and inform you the result :)