how to mount USB pen drive

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

El Jueves, 14 de Febrero de 2008 15:45, Marcos Trazzini escribió:
> > Hi techies..
> >                     Can anyone tell how to mount USB pen drive on Red Hat
> >  8.0 and SCO 5.
> >  Please tell.
>
> Hello there.
>
> I don't know how to do that on a SCO5, but as this is an Red Hat list,
> perhaps I can help you on the Red Hat's case.
>
> After you've plugged the pen drive, run a "fdisk -l" command to see if
> a new scsi device (like /dev/sda or /dev/sdb) was correctly created.
> For instance, if /dev/sdb was assigned for the new plugged pen drive,
> and assumes that it has only one partition, try to mount the /dev/sdb1
> (as root), like:
>
> # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
>
> If you can properly mount and the data is acessible, it's done. Don't
> forget to umount the device (not phisically, but using "umount /mnt")
> before taking it off.
>
> Regards.
>

tail -f /var/log/messages when plugin in the pendrive might help you out to 
realise if a new interface was created.

Manuel.

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