[rhn-users] cannot detect usb drive

[Paula J. Lindsay]

Thank you Cameron.  Your advice was fantastic.
Many thanks,
Paula

Kennedy, Cameron wrote:

> not sure this is the right forum, but you need to know what device it
>is being picked up as. Try checking /var/log/messages when you insert
>the USB stick and it will say what it gets mapped as. 
>
>Usually my usb stick is /dev/sda and there is 1 partition. So in fstab I
>would have an entry like: 
>/dev/sda1	/mnt/usb		ext3		defaults 0 0 
>(this is assuming an ext3 partition or you could replace with vfat. This
>is also assuming you want it mounted at /mnt/usb.) 
>
>Or you could manually mount from commandline as: mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1
>/mnt/usb
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
>On Behalf Of Paula J. Lindsay
>Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:08 AM
>To: Red Hat Network Users List
>Subject: [rhn-users] cannot detect usb drive
>
>Hi everyone,
>I cannot detect my usb flash drive.  It works fine on my windows, but I
>don't see it when I use it on my linux box.  Does it need to be mounted
>in /etc/fstab?
>Many thanks for any advice.
>Paula
>
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  o The			Paula J. Lindsay, IT Analyst III
 /        	 	Research Computing, TPC21
o   Scripps		phone:  858.784.9378
 \			fax:    858.784.9301
  o Research 		email: paula at scripps.edu
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