how to mount USB drives ?

[tanweeyang]

Hi ppl, i been trying to mount my USB floppy drives and USB thumb drives ( a scandisk Cruzer mini) into my USB hub in Fedora Core 2. i used Hardware Viewer and it displays the usb floppy drive and thumbdrive under the HardDisk portion as /dev/sda/ and /dev/sdb

I read in past tutorials that u got to set the /etc/fstab file to recognize the drives right ? May i noe how do i type the command to mount the drives ?

regards
wilson

[sdousley]

u dont have to edit fstab to be able to view them.

try the command:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-stick

of course make sure that the /mnt/usb-stick folder exists before running that.

Then you should see the contents of the drive in /mnt/usb-stick

to mount the other drive, just change /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1 and the /mnt/usb-stick to where u want it.

You cana dd lines to the fstab to make mounting easier if u want tho

[tanweeyang]

u dont have to edit fstab to be able to view them.

try the command:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-stick

of course make sure that the /mnt/usb-stick folder exists before running that.

Then you should see the contents of the drive in /mnt/usb-stick

to mount the other drive, just change /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1 and the /mnt/usb-stick to where u want it.

You cana dd lines to the fstab to make mounting easier if u want tho

where do i check the usb-stick exists ?

[smindinvern]

make sure that your usb-drive is plugged in, and from the command line (Press Alt+F2 and type gnome-terminal # or konsole, if that be your preference) type:

mkdir /mnt/usb-drive
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-drive

now you can browse the contents of that drive at the location /mnt/usb-drive