mount the USB device (was: Black Friday fun with Fedora)

[Martin Marques]

El Vie 28 Nov 2003 14:02, Preston Crawford escribió:
> <DIV>So my wife rushed out this morning to Target to get an 
> $88 digital camera. 3.3 mp. Plugged it into my desktop (running Fedora, of 
> course) and all I had to do was add an entry into fstab for the camera and 
> create a directory under /mnt/ and I was able to mount the camera just fine. 
> Wild. It's a Vivitar (can't remember the model off the top of my head) if 
anyone 
> cares. Anyway, what a nice surprise.</DIV>

The other days I was thinking on how USB devices such as a scanner, or this 
video camera works. To my surprise, I see that he mount the device to the FS. 
But what is it that one will do with the mounted device?

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