Darrick, Thanks for the suggestion. It does indeed work, and in fact had
the device been connected when I booted astlinux, the boot process would
have found it.
If I disconnect the USB disk/memory stick (after umount) and plug in another
different one, do I need to rerun dmesg again?
Thanks
David
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Darrick Hartman
<[email protected]>wrote:
> David Kerr wrote:
> > How would I go about mounting a USB attached disk drive or memory stick
> > in Astlinux? I tried mount /dev/sda1 <mount-point> but get no such file
> > or directory error. This would not be for use as kd but for general
> > purpose use (like drive for an ftp server).
> >
> > Thanks
> > David
>
> When you insert the usb device, type dmesg on the command line. You
> should see something like:
>
> SCSI device sda: 16041613 512-byte hdwr sectors (8213 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sda: 16041613 512-byte hdwr sectors (8213 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> sda: sda1
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
> scsi 0:0:0:1: CD-ROM SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro 4.05 PQ: 0 ANSI:
> 2
>
>
> mkdir /tmp/foo
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /tmp/foo
>
> If you don't see anything when you insert the usb device, let me know
> what hardware you're using and what version of Astlinux.
>
> Darrick
>
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