will FC3 auto mount the thumb drive(hot plag)?

Antonio Montagnani anto.montagnani at virgilio.it
Thu May 12 19:33:23 UTC 2005


Jeff Vian wrote / ha scritto on /il 12/05/2005 20:27:

>On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 21:59 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
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>>yufan wrote:
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>>>i remember last time when i plugged in a thumb drive the system would
>>>auto mount the drive for me but now it no longer works.and even worse
>>>i cannot mount the thumbdrive when i type "mount -t fat /dev/sda
>>>/mnt/temp" under root. My kernel version is 2.6.11-1.14. anyone know
>>>what's wrong with that?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>1. The type should be vfat, not fat.
>2. /dev/sda is the entire device, not the partition. It should
>be /dev/sda1 or similar.
>3. Does /mnt/temp exist?
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>>Try
>>mount /media/u<TAB>
>>It should expand to /media/usbdisk and mount /dev/sda1 (not sda).
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>The name may not be usbdisk, but it should show up in /media and thus
>the command above with the proper name should work.  Different devices
>get different labels in /media when plugged in.
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>Mine is " mount /media/UDISK_2.0 " to mount as my user,  or as root I
>can do "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/UDISK_2.0"
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Mine is not mounted automatically (as the camera Nikon Coolpix 3100).
Hardware is Genesys Logic, Inc. SIIG US2256 CompactFlash Card Reader 
that is well recognized (as the camera..) by lsusb command.


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