help with USB drive

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

ehemdal wrote:

> mkdir /media/usbdisk
> chmod 777 /media/usbdisk # setting permissions for ease of use
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk
>
I'd suggest doing a tail -f /var/log/messages  while plugging the 
device. This way , you'll know for sure if it's recognized as sda or sdb 
(in my computer , I never got any pendrive to be recognized as sdb , but 
yesterday on my friend's computer , his pendrive was recognized as sdb , 
even though it was the only USB/SCSI device).

> If you have a USB disk that is an NTFS volume, I am not sure how far 
> you can get, because I haven't worked on NTFS support. But I found I 
> could build a new filesystem with
>
> mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda
>
> Then it was easy to mount.

If it's NTFS volume , then he'd need the NTFS module , available on 
livna and on the NTFS project homepage 
(http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/).  All instructions needed are 
available on the NTFS project homepage.

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Pedro Macedo