Re: silug: problem with a usb drive

[Paul Nicholas McCubbins <nick77@dtnspeed.net>]

You'll also want to check out the uid, gid, umask, and dmask mount
options.
 
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 19:37 -0600, dsavage@peaknet.net wrote:
> > i'm using FC2 (i switched from fc3 where it was recognized), in FC2 it
> > is not auto loading.  it is a 256mg drive, and when i tried to mount it
> > like so
> >
> >     * mkdir /mnt/usb000
> >     * mount  /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb000<>
> >
> > <>nothing happens, says there is a disk error or something  ...
> >
> >     * [root@localhost root]# mount -tvfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb000
> >       mount: /dev/sda1: can't read superblock
> >       You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
> >
> > sooo ... i tried parted, i was going to reformat it to dos, or fat32.
> > that says it can't read the superblock.  any help?  it won't even access
> > it under parted.
> 
> Bentley,
> 
> Since a "thumb" drive is a commonly used item, it makes good sense to add
> a permanent user mount entry in your /etc/fstab. As root, edit /etc/fstab
> to add the following line:
> 
> /dev/sda  /mnt/thumb  vfat  noauto,users,rw  0  0
> 
> Note carefully that this says "users" (more than one) rather than "user"
> or "owner". It also says /dev/sda and not /dev/sda1. On all of my systems,
> and in at least 90% of those I've heard about, a thumb drive is treated as
> _unpartitioned_ removable storage -- just like a floppy disk. (Duh!)
> 
> Then (also as root), make sure you have a proper mount point:
> 
> # mkdir /mnt/thumb
> 
> Next time you insert your thumb drive, give it a few seconds to be
> recognized. Then as you (not as root) type:
> 
> $ /mnt/thumb
> 
> $ ls -al /mnt/thumb
> ...
> 
> Before removing this little jewel, you must first make sure all writes to
> it are complete. As a newcomer to Linux, I'm sure you'll find this a bit
> curious. You may recall, though, that Windows bitches if you yank out a
> USB device without first "stopping" it.
> 
> $ sync    <-- once
> $ sync    <-- twice
> $ sync    <-- three should be enough
> 
> Now unmount it:
> 
> $ cd
> $ umount /mnt/thumb   <-- remember, unmount is spelled "umount"
> 
> Note that your system will refuse an umount command if any user is logged
> onto or using a file in /mnt/thumb or any subdirectory thereof.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> --Doc
> 
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