Mount a Flash Drive

**squirrelplayingtag** · 10-14-2005

I'm trying to mount my flash drive but I don't have a /dev/sda* at all!

Code:

tail -f /var/log/messages

Returns that the USB-Storage is recongnized but I don't know where it's going to? I could probably mount it if I knew what to mount.

**smith88** · 10-14-2005

Try typing something like this into a terminal:

Code:

ls /dev | grep sda

The output should be all of the external data storing devices connected to your computer.

(grep sorts the list of all your devices so that only those with "sda" in them are output to your terminal session)

Hopefully then you can find the device you are looking for.

**squirrelplayingtag** · 10-15-2005

Oy, now usb is timing out.

Code:

Oct 14 19&#58;10&#58;20 localhost kernel&#58; usb 1-1&#58; new full speed USB device using addre ss 4
Oct 14 19&#58;10&#58;25 localhost kernel&#58; usb 1-1&#58; control timeout on ep0out

And

Code:

ls /dev |grep sda

returns nothing, which now that I think about it should be expected since it timed out. Correct?

**smith88** · 10-15-2005

I guess, I've never experienced a problem like that before. Has your usb disk worked on other linux distros before?

**squirrelplayingtag** · 10-15-2005

Yea, I've always just done

Code:

mount -t usbfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

I don't get why I'm missing /dev/sda* and /dev/sdb*.

**squirrelplayingtag** · 10-15-2005

I figured out why I was getting the second error. It was caused by the line I added to my /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules. Apparently it didn't work for my setup and I'm not sure really how to use it. Removing it left me with just an unmounted flash drive but without the timeout error.

**squirrelplayingtag** · 10-15-2005

Had some power issues last night and had to do some fscking this morning. Now it automounts according to my /etc/fstab and I have /dev/sda and /dev/sda1.

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