How to Mount external usb hardisk in Linux

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:04:29AM -0700, Manohar K N wrote:
> Hi Every one,
>    
>         Can you guide how access externela usb drive in linux pc. (or How to configure )
>    
>   Thanks and Regards,
>   Manohara.K.N

Need to know more about your system.  What distribution and version?

What kind of hard drives do you have on your system?

In general, your USB drive will be recognized as a SCSI drive.  If you
have no SCSI or SATA drives, it will show up as /dev/sda.  If you have
one SATA drive, the USB drive will appear as /dev/sdb because your
SATA drive is probably /dev/sda.

The way to find out is to su to root ("su -"), then tail
/var/log/messages:

  tail -f /var/log/messages

and then plug in the USB drive.  Within five seconds, there should be
some report of the USB drive.  If you have a recent Linux distro,
there may be new entry in /etc/fstab for that device.  Then you may be
able to say

  mount /dev/sda1

Again, we need more information to do more than speculate.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
bob at bobcatos.com             http://www.bobcatos.com
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