On Thursday 13 October 2005 02:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Ricardo Rodriguez wrote: > > I have never used a usb device on my box until now. I have just pluged > > a flash disc and I'm cluless about where to look for it. > > > > I checked on hardware and I thinks is tha 'sda' device for which I > > follow the path given on the MCC description. After following > > /dev/scsi/..../ I get to a folder with three links: disk, generic and > > part1 but when I click on them konqueror ask me about how to open it and > > I have no idea. > > > > Thnx. > > Look in the /mnt directory. There should be a mount point there for your > flash disk. The exact name depends on the disk itself. Mandriva 2005LE > and later try to give it a meaningfull name. If all else fails, it will > probably end up mounted as /mnt/removable or /mnt/camera. If you run the > mount command, it will list what is mounted where. You can probably run > "mount | grep /dev/sda" to get just that mount point. > > You normaly do not want to try and open files in the /dev directory > tree, especialy with Konqueror. These are the files the system uses to > talk to the actual hardware. You want to access the file system, and for > that the device is usualy mounted. The most common place for removable > devices to be mounted is a directory off the /mnt directory. > > Just for your information, with USB storage devices, /dev/sda will be > the entire drive. You will usualy have at least one partition. IN your > case, the data is on /dev/sda1. > > Mikkel
>From 2005LE onwards the haldeamon service will automatically detect devices like USB Flash and mount them for you. If it is not working then examine your log file /var/log/syslog for clues. Also ensure the haldaemon and messagebus services are running. If the device is detected correctly then a new line will appear in /etc/fstab to define the mount point. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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