How to mount usb thumbdrive in slackware 10.2?

[nafees]

How to mount usb thumbdrive in slackware 10.2?

[sdousley]

firstly checck what device it is detected as. Check the output of "dmesg" just after plugging it in and it should tell you. It's more than likely /dev/sda, so i will continue with this assumption. If u find it's something else, then change the sda to the relevent device. Simply run:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/point

where /mnt/point is where you want to mount the drive, and is a valid folder. Maybe something like /mnt/usbpen

[nafees]

i tried it but it not works ... may i'm usin a sata hdd ... now wht i need to do ?

[kern]

maybe its /dev/sdb1

but really, manual mounting things like pendrives is a thing of the past.

make yourself a udev rule, which creates the device like /dev/usb/stick

then you can use that device in your fstab, and you'll never have problems wondering which mass storage device it is because you always assign it to the same device.

after that you could setup a automounted map for it so it always mounts in /mnt/stick

not much harder, but worthit

[antstyle]

How to mount usb thumbdrive in slackware 10.2?

before you mount :
after connect usb type # dmesg
device name will tell you on that sample dmesg shown down

===
SCSI device sdb: 503808 512-byte hdwr sectors (258 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 503808 512-byte hdwr sectors (258 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: unknown partition table
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
usb-storage: device scan complete
===
So device name will be /dev/sdb

and then do mount :

mkdir /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sdb /mnt/usb
ls -al /mnt/usb


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Ant

[rck_hitokiri]

First su.
make a folder for your usb stick to mount on (e.g. mkdir /mnt/usb)
then mount the usb drive...
root@somename:~#mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb.
thats all there is to it..

[Stotic]

When I try doing this i get the error message:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superbock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other error. In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

[devils casper]

Hi Stotic !

Welcome to the LinuxForums.

I would suggest you to start a new thread and post the output of fdisk -l command in New Thread.