USB handy drive...

[dinozilla]

Hi
I m a newbie on linux...just got to it for days
Now wondering of how to use my Apacer USB2.0 thumbdrive in Linux...
I got myself the Fedora Core 1 to run in my PC
How can i copy file to it?
Do i need to unmount later?

[loft306]

you cp the file to the mount point usualy /mnt/usb (or whatever is listed as the mount point in /etc/fstab) , and yes you need to umount it befor you pull it out or the files wont be written to it.

[dinozilla]

icic
but i do notice when i plug it on
a folder named flash created in /mnt
is it suppose to be happen in fedora??

[white scorpion]

# mkdir /mnt/sda1/
# mount -rw /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
# cd /mnt/sda1
# ls

if this doesn't work, then make all sda1 change to sdb1

to unmount it:

# umount /dev/sda1

what i usually do is create 2 aliases:

alias flash 'mount -rw /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1'
alias uflash 'mount -rw /dev/sda1'

by copying the above strings to /<username/.tcshrc
(this is because i like to use the tcsh.

but this also works with bash, then you'd have to copy it to /<user>/.bashrc

where <user> is your username, e.g. root or something else...

[dinozilla]

icic
thanks

[sarumont]

An fstab entry would also do the job (IMHO a better solution than an alias, unless you don't want other users able to mount it).

/dev/sda1               /mnt/usb        vfat            users,noauto,rw,exec,umask=0033         0 0

[dinozilla]

[quote="lepricaun"]# mkdir /mnt/sda1/
# mount -rw /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
# cd /mnt/sda1
# ls

i tried the above
and it asked for:

/dev/sda1: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

how should i write the command?

[sarumont]

mount -t vfat -o rw,users /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1