[wellylug] USB flash disk

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 12:01, Steven Mulvay wrote:
> Hi all, how are you?
> How do I mount a usb flash disk under Linux? Will I need to obtain a
> driver for it first? How do I know what each of my usb ports are named
> as on my system? (eg what should I write for the /dev/ section of the
> mount command) Unfortunately my ability to solve many problems hinges
> on whether or not I can successfully mount and write to a flash disk.
> Thank you very much for your time.

okay,

depending on your distro, the usb ports will probery be something like
/dev/usb0 or /dev/usb1.

To mount it manually, you can run (as root):
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(create the directory to be mounted to (only needed to be done once):
mkdir -p /mnt/usbdrive)
(mount the drive):
mount /dev/usb0 /mnt/usbdrive
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The drive can then be accessed in /mnt/usbdrive.


Once you find the working usb device, if you would like to make it so
that any user can mount the drive, add these lines to the end of
/etc/fstab:
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# usb drive
/dev/usb0  /mnt/usbdrive   auto  noauto,user   0  0

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This will cause the drive to be able to be mounted by any user, via
command line or gui (gnome/kde). It will auto detect the filesystem on
the drive, so there is no problem there.


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