[oclug] Help needed with Fedora

[Jeremy Wakeman]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 01:17:12AM -0500, Peter Timusk wrote:
> 
> 
> I noticed some buggy issues mounting and unmounting even my floppy in 
> Fedora 1. Maybe you have to mount the drive. It is not hard to mount 
> things and a web search will give you proper instructions. I was able 
> to mount a zip drive. Sorry I don't live on a command line so can't 
> tell you the exact command but like I say web search mounting a USB 
> memory stick see if this works.

Linux deals with usb storage devices by emulating scsi (unless I am very
much mistaken), so the command line goes something like this:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt

obviously, the fs type needs to match the filesystem on the drive.  Most
modern *nix's have an automatic system of some sort (mount as vfat -
worked? no - mount as fat - worked? no - mount as msdos - worked? etc).

I know very little about how Fedora handles usb automounting (hotplug?),
and I've never actually set it up on my (debian) box.  Might be nice to
learn how.  Anyone know a good howto?

-- 

Jeremy John Wakeman
jeremywakeman at istop.com
www.polarhome.com/~cael
linux registered user #125171
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