[wellylug] Mounting USB flash memory
Centurion Computer Technology Ltd
daniel at centurion.net.nz
Thu Oct 28 09:01:24 NZDT 2004
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 12:51, David Antliff wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Centurion Computer Technology Ltd wrote:
> > You will have to look at hotplug to solve this one. I think
> > automounting may be difficult because when it comes time to remove it
> > you have to unmount it before you unplug it otherwise you end up with
> > data corruption especially if you use the default fat filesystem on it.
> >
> > I just setup an entry in /etc/fstab and a disk drive applet on the
> > desktop (Gnome) to mount and unmount it.
>
> I do pretty much the same with my USB camera and USB mp3 player. However I
> use udev instead of devfs to manage my device nodes. You might want to
> look into this if you are using a 2.6 kernel. There's a very good howto I
> can point you at if you're interested...
Yes please. I am currently migrating form Redhat 8 to Userlinux a
debian(unstable/testing) variant which runs a 2.6 kernel
> (udev means you don't have to worry about /dev/sda1 being either device,
> depending on which you plugged in first, amongst other things...)
> --
> David.
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Daniel Reurich
Centurion Computer Technolgy Limited
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