How to Mount external usb hardisk in Linux

[Harold Hallikainen]

> 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.


On my FC6 laptop, USB drives just magically show up on the desktop when
they are plugged in, so they're real easy to work with.

Harold


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