USB 'disk drives'

[geoff allsup]

Hi Dan

The drive should be something like /dev/sda1 (not sda);  my USB pen 
drive is set up as 'auto' in my fstab, and mounts as 'vfat' out of the box.

Hope this helps,
geoff


Dan Coutu wrote:
> Well, I got one of those cute little USB 'thumb drive' things that is 
> supposed to look like a removable disk on Windows and is supposed to 
> also work with Linux. So I plugged it in and began the adventure of 
> trying to figure out how to access it.
> 
> I see that using usbview shows me the thing and recognizes that it is a 
> storage device with the correct amount of free space. Further it appears 
> that it is seen as device /dev/sda. Okay. So the intuitive command
> 'mount /dev/sda /mnt/usbdrive' (after first creating /mnt/usbdrive of 
> course) wants to have a filesystem type specified. That's where I'm 
> getting stumped. It seems to use a FAT filesystem but uses a 12-bit FAT 
> instead of 16. None of the filesystem types I've tried will work.
> 
> I'd love to setup the thing to automount but can't do that if I can't 
> mount it at all! Has anyone already wrestled this alligator and figured 
> out how to use it? If not I'll dive into research mode and learn more 
> about using USB things with Linux.
> 
> Thanks!


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Geoff Allsup, W1OH     gallsup at whoi.edu  or  w1oh at arrl.net
Research Engineer              Upper Ocean Processes Group
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution   Woods Hole, MA, USA
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