flash drive

[littlewenwen]

Dear All

I am using Suse 10.0. It can detect my flash drive, but can not eject it.

I searched forum ( http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...t=flash+drive).

But I still could not figure out. When I try to type "fdisk -l" it says there is no such command.

When I try to sth with "fstab", but it seems that there is no such directory. Do I have to be a root? Besides how to add flash drive (or whatever external hard ware to fstab file?)

Thank you for your advice!

[littlewenwen]

I found my fstab file, here is waht it shows:



/dev/hda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/hda1 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocha rset=utf8 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0




how do I add the flash drive to it?

[littlewenwen]

here is what "fdisk -l' returned:

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 851 6835626 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 852 7296 51769462+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 852 1123 2184808+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 1124 7296 49584591 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 256 MB, 256900608 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 979 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 979 250574+ 6 FAT16


please HELP!

[tech_man]

How can you not eject it? Is there no option to? Does it give an error message?

[littlewenwen]

umount:/media/usbdisk is not in the fstab ( and you are not root)

Do I have to be root?

I tried as a root and type like the following:

#umount media/usbdisk

it seems that the USB is removed ( Because I can not get access to the files on the USB), but the light on the USB is still on.




Then I try to mount it again:

# mount media/usbdisk

and I get the error message:

mount: can't find /media/usbdisk in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab





( Ususally I just insert the USB and SUSE can detect it automatically)

[gogalthorp]

When you insert do you see it on the desktop (BTW KDE/Gnome??)

If so right click on the icon and select "safely remove"

The icon should go away. you can now remove it.

[littlewenwen]

That's exactly what I did:

I insert USB, it automatically appeared in "my Computer" on desktop. When I tied to remobe it (as what you said, right click on the icon and select "safely remove"
), the following error message appears:

umount:/media/usbdisk is not in the fstab ( and you are not root)


Maybe sth is wrong with the system?