Mounting External USB/Firewire drivers

[Paal Marker]

Donald Tyler wrote:

> I am sure this has been asked before, but I can’t seem to find the 
> answer when searching through my mailing list archive. So I apologize 
> if this has been answered already.
>
> I need to know how I mount an external USB or Firewire hard drive.
>
> Thanks
>
> Donald Tyler
>
On my rh8 kernel 2.4.18-14:

su to root
mkdir /mnt/usbhd
plug in the usb-drive
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbhd

(sdb1, could be sdb2........sdb4)

The usb-drive was succesfully mounted on /mnt/usbhd