[K12OSN] USB Flash Drive?

Josiah Ritchie jritchie at bible.edu
Sat Aug 7 00:55:01 UTC 2004


Eric Harrison wrote:
> Being a command-line sorta guy, here's how I do it...
> 
> 1) insert the USB flash drive
> 2) tail /var/log/messages, see what the device name is, usually /dev/sda
> 3) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/

I like to setup the drive in /etc/fstab so all I have to do in the 
future is mount /mnt/usb

The sytax is rather obvious. You'll need msdos as the filesystem I 
believe and noauto,users as the options IIRC.

JSR/





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