-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:49, James Amrhein wrote: > Hi, > I've been trying to mount a 60 gig backpack HD under Linux 2.4.18-18 > I have USB and Hotplug running. > The only way I've gotten access to the drive is via : > > mount -v /dev/sdb /mnt/external -t usbdevfs Arggh. usbdevfs is a virtual filesystem. You should never mount a real device using it.
Probably what you wanted to do was something like: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/external -t vfat (assuming the disk has one partition, and has a windows-type filesystem on that partition) If you are not sure how the disk is partitioned, you need to use something (fdisk is effective, if brutal) that understands the disk layout. Brad BTW: This should have gone to the -users mailing list. -devel is for development, not for usage questions you'd like the developers to answer. - -- http://linux.conf.au. 22-25Jan2003. Perth, Aust. I'm registered. Are you? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE95UT8W6pHgIdAuOMRAu5RAJ0Rg5xkeE0B7mLj8ibhQRCaU+1r2gCeNiXe kfZk5JTfBhPHGqIMlIlrzsU= =Z0eM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
