On a similar theme. I use a USB stick or a USB drive for large data files ( music etc.)
The problem I have is that it is only available to one logged in user and not others on the same machine.
Is there any way to make the USB devices available to all. Bear in mind that sometimes there are not plugged in, so a permanent mount option is not the way to go.
On 03/02/10 09:21, Simon Vass wrote:
Fantastic! Way to go Bernard. Simon Vass Technical Manager E-Tech Uganda Ltd http://www.etech.ug Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 Email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Wanyama"<[email protected]> To: "Linux Users Group Uganda"<[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:13:02 AM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: Re: [LUG] USB Stick Hi all, We finally fixed it today. Jacques had accidentally knocked out the partition table of his hard disk (/dev/sdb) and not that of the USB stick (/dev/sdd)! Luckily, he had a live-USB Ubuntu - Karmic Koala - Netbook remix. We booted off the USB. downloaded testdisk debian package and installed it - right on the live USB. We then used testdisk to search the hard disk (/dev/sdb) for previous partitions and we did find his last valid partition. Restore, save, reboot! We got right back in and when the laptop booted into his old desktop environment, I discovered that Jacques could actually say thank you in Luganda!! We also decided to fix the 'offending' USB stick by wiping its partition table using gparted in Ubuntu and creating a VFAT partition on it. After that, the full 2GB capacity was available - at least we could copy and play back some Beatles and Tempations audio files. A wonderful evening of data recovery - courtesy of Testdisk and Ubuntu Karmic Koala. Cheers! Bernard On 01/02/2010, Peter C. Ndikuwera<[email protected]> wrote:
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