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  1. 07-11-2003 #1
    OhBoy!
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    Mounting a USB drive?

    How in the world do you mount a USB drive, from both the command line and XWindows?
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    usb drives are generaly listed as scsi devices (don't ask why, because i'm not sure myself)

    anyway... trial and error is the best thing i can suggest. if you have usb support (and the modules running) then try mounting /dev/sda1 and sda2 etc as you would a normal device... I foudn that my usb disk (once deteted) was listed as /dev/sda2.
    Code:
    #mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
    (where /mnt/usb is a dir that actualy exists)

    you may find that you have to specify a file sytem type... as far as i am aware, most usb drives use vfat, so thats easy enough.

    good luck
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    In addition to good luck, if you could let us know what worked for you on your distro, we would appreciate it. Your question is a good one so its bound to come up again.


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    Just done it on Mandrake 9.1 without touching a command line.

    Booted with the drive plugged in, went to diskdrake and selected it, set a mount point, went to advanced options and allowed all to mount. MDK shoves an icon on the desktop similar to the cdrom ones.

    So all I do now is plug it in and mount with the icon.
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    Well... I tried the "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/" and "sda2, 3, 4..."

    And it returned something like "No such block device found", and in looking in the /dev/ directory I see MANY "sd" files...

    How would you go about finding which one is actually the device I am trying to mount?

    BTW: This is more like a RAM drive that plugs into the UBS port. I hope my first post was understood as such, but if not, I hope this clears it up.
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  6. 07-13-2003 #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by OhBoy!
    BTW: This is more like a RAM drive that plugs into the UBS port. I hope my first post was understood as such, but if not, I hope this clears it up.
    That's what mine is too. Try following what I've written and it should work.
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