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I got a cosair usb stick, and it says its compatiable with linux but I do not have a clue on how to access it, seeing as i just reinstall linux after my kernel crash I dont have a clue on how to access the usb stick and make use of it, anyhelp would be nice,
Ok, here is a trick I like for USB drives, (haven't tried this on Slackware lately, but assume it should work...). First type this command in a terminal:
tail -f /var/log/messages
Now stick in the usb drive and watch the messages. You should see the device get detected, and what SCSI device it gets mapped to. Now just mount it where you want. Oh, and type "Ctrl-C" to quit the "tail" command. Example: say it is mapped in as sdd drive, you could then mount it with the command:
mount -t vfat /dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb
This example assumes the directory /mnt/usb exists, modify as needed.
HTH.
In Slackware, generally a "mount /dev/sda /mnt/[mountpoint]" works for me. I added it into my fstab and just clickety-click a little "mount /mnt/usb" and it works fine every time.
Hi Poetics,
Is /dev/sda a typo? Did you mean /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 for example?
I have a USB key and an iRiver that get mounted on different sda partitions - I'd love to be able to have just the one line in my /etc/fstab, but using that syntax doesn't work for me. I get the error 'mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda'.
Sorry, yeah that was a typo -- /dev/sda1 is the correct setting.
sda1, in my experience, refers to the first USB item that gets mounted, so if I put an mp3 player on it'd also mount as sda1 if I were to load it first
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