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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:39, David Merriman wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm having trouble mounting a USB 2.0 'Travelling Disk' memory stick.
> I've followed many Google leads, including these:
<snip>
> but none of the instructions I've followed have resulted in a
> successfully mounted drive.
<snip>
>
> I've created a directory called /mnt/usbdrive, but there's nothing to mount
> yet...
>
> Any thoughts gratefully received.
You are well on the way.
Linux does not automatically mount usb drives when they are plugged in
(normally). You need to manually mount /dev/sda1 (and maybe 2,3 and 4 as
well, i'm not sure).
Try (as root):
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive
Don't forget to umount it before you unplug it (though i found you can unplug
then umount, but then you run the risk of data loss).
Adding an entry to /etc/fstab can allow any use to mount it
("mount /mnt/usbdrive" as any user for example).
Hope this helps
Later
Lee Begg
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