Hi Hendrik, Thanks for the tip. I thought the space might be a problem so earlier I tried to rename using konqueror but was successful. Konqueror, in su mode, returned "Could not rename file /media/USB DISK."
Robin On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Hendrik Schaink <[email protected]>wrote: > Observation: "USB DISK" contains a space while "PATRIOT" does not. I > would start with renaming the stick from "USB DISK" to "USB_DISK" so > there are no spaces to be parsed by the mount command. Debian does have > some pickiness that you need to address. > > Further, could you issue the empty "mount" command (without quotes) uin > Debian Lenny and publish it's output? > > HTH, Hendrik > > > Richard Carter wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > I have 2 USB flash drives with details below: > > > > redcube:~# df -Th > > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda1 ext3 142G 46G 89G 34% / > > tmpfs tmpfs 976M 0 976M 0% /lib/init/rw > > udev tmpfs 10M 100K 10M 1% /dev > > tmpfs tmpfs 976M 0 976M 0% /dev/shm > > /dev/hdc iso9660 3.1G 3.1G 0 100% /media/cdrom0 > > /dev/sda1 vfat 7.7G 8.0K 7.7G 1% /media/PATRIOT > > /dev/sdb1 vfat 16G 461M 16G 3% /media/USB DISK > > > > Under kubuntu 9.04 both PATRIOT and USB DISK are mounted as read/write > so > > I am able to copy files to and from either one. But under debian 5.0 > only > > PATRIOT is mounted as read/write while USB DISK is mounted as write only > so > > I am unable to copy file to USB DISK. > > > > I suspect this has something to do with /etc/fstab on the system running > > debian but I don't know what I should do so that both flash drives always > > mount as read/write on that system. > > > > I realize that this is somewhat related to an earlier thread. I'm sorry > but > > I'm a slow learner. > > > > Robin > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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