mounting usb pen drive
 

i'm using slackware 11... i need to know how to mount a usb pen drive... i tried editing the /etc/fstab file but dint work...

thanks in advance....

Plug in the device. As root do
.

You will see a similar output like this one:
From the output you see that the device is named "sdb", the only partition on it is sdb1. To mount it at /mnt/tmp do:

If needed use some umask options to fine tune the permissions that the device gets if it is FAT32 formatted. In this case

should give all users full write access to it, although it's not very secure of course.

I use something like:

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

You have to experiment with the sda1. Try things like sda2 sdb1.

Failing that boot up with the usb in. You might just see something in dmesg or /var/log/messages.

John