[Fwd: RH 9 & USB Pen Drive?]

[mylar]

On most modern Linux distro's (running kernel 2.6.xxx) with all the USB
features enabled (i.e. hotplugging, etc.) generally all you need do is
simply plug the drive in and it will mount automagically and appear
under some directory like "/media/usbdrive" or "/mnt/drive-name" or
something similar, 

On some older kernels <= 2.4.x and/or without all the USB features
enabled you may have to mount it manually. Provided the device is
properly detected when plugged into the port you would use the "mount"
command to do something like this:

$ mount -t vfat /dev/sdaX /mnt/foo

to mount the device. X is replaced by an integer (0,1,2,3...) and
"/mnt/foo" is replaced by whatever mount point you want  to use.

A good article on Linux and USB devices appeared in either the Linux
Journal and/or Linux Magazine this past month.

mylar


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 09:01, spal at iitk.ac.in wrote:
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: RH 9 & USB Pen Drive?
> From:    "gerrynix" <gerrynix at yahoo.com>
> Date:    Wed, October 26, 2005 4:26 pm
> To:      redhat-install-list at redhat.com
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> 
> Hello all,
> 
> How to mount a USB pen drive?  What is the device names and
> example syntax. How are they mounted automagically at insertion?
> --
> MTIA
> Nix
> 
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