Re: help with USB drive

[Yuandan Zhang <yzhang4 turing une edu au>]

Charles Li wrote:

> Its formated as vfat.  When I plug it in, the light on
> the drive stays on for about 1 minute and then its
> off.  Also, I did not get anything from the
> /var/log/messages file with the tail -f.  When I do a
> fdisk -l, it did not show up as well. ???
>
>  
make sure you have root access to do
/sbin/fdisk -l


> --- Pedro Fernandes Macedo
> <webmaster margo bijoux nom br> wrote:
>  
>
> > 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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