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how to mount USB drive on RedHat Linux AS 3.0

shaobinxu — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:44:07 GMT

a small USB flash drive 256MB, want to mount to linux, is it possible? anyone can help?

Re: how to mount USB drive on RedHat Linux AS 3.0

Ajay Agarwal — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:40:34 GMT

1) Plug in the flash drive into one of the USB ports on your computer.
2) Enter the following command:
# lsusb
This will list all usb devices on your system.

3) Go into your /dev directory and look for sdXX where XX is a leter and number ex: sda1.
Some distros will only make a dev for the devices you have and some will not. If there are a lot of sdXX's in there than just start with sda1 and try others if you have no luck.
4) Make a directory to mount your drive, eg. /mnt/usb.
5) Then mount the device:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

Re: how to mount USB drive on RedHat Linux AS 3.0

Chakravarthi — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:48:25 GMT

hello,

check the below link,this will explain how to enable support for usb drives and reconfigure the kernel.

-chakri

Re: how to mount USB drive on RedHat Linux AS 3.0

Alexander Chuzhoy — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:49:03 GMT

create a temporary directory like /mnt/usb
plug your USB drive.
see the output of `dmesg`
if you see sda
then mkdir /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
if you see sdb
then mkdir /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
and so on...

Re: how to mount USB drive on RedHat Linux AS 3.0

Vipulinux — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:15:51 GMT

Hi

ON RHAS 3.0, plug in the usb and do
cd /mnt/usb

Cheers
Vipul

Re: how to mount USB drive on RedHat Linux AS 3.0

Chakravarthi — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 05:51:50 GMT

sorry forgot to paste the link

here it is
http://forums.dreamincode.net/showtopic9989.htm

Re: how to mount USB drive on RedHat Linux AS 3.0

shaobinxu — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:43:33 GMT

Thank you for your all, the drive mounted, thanks for your reply.

Re: how to mount USB drive on RedHat Linux AS 3.0

shaobinxu — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:44:20 GMT

thanks all