I have a USB flash disk (32mb) which is recognised fine by rh 7.3.
mount -l shows it mounted as usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb.
On further investigation usbmodules gives me that it is on /proc/bus/usb/001/002 as usb storage.

But when i go to this directory, i can't see my data.

I tried to set it up as a loop device as follows:

insmod loop.o
dd if=/proc/bus/usb/001/002 of=/file bs=1k count=32M
losetup /dev/loop0 /file 32M
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/loop0

The last step tells me that my file system is larger than the size specified and prompts me whether i want to proceed which goes ahead and makes my file system with some warnings about super blockk amongst other things.
i give the following commands:

mount -t ext3 /dev/loop0 /mnt/flashdisk

I get an error message that it can't get the superblock or something and fails.

How can i get my data from the flash disk? Is my approach wrong?

Koome
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Whoa there! Stop what you're doing!

Boot into RedHat.

Insert flash drive.

Type cdrecord -scanbus.

Check to see if there's any mention of a removable drive there.

Look to see if the usb-storage module has been loaded by typing lsmod (that was a little L) as root.

If so, then check to see if you have any scsi drives listed in /dev:
ls /dev/sd*

If you have, then mount that as your drive. You shouldn't have to be playing around with looped filesystems at all!

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash

Of course, the directory /mnt/flash needs to be made first.

I noticed i was going about it the wrong way. This is what i did:
cat /proc/scsi/scsi to check whether my flash disk was recognised as a scsi drive. True it was.
Then i just mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash and there i was. I could now see my data.

thanks all
Koome
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