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| Thread ID: 53553 | 2005-01-20 23:00:00 | Problems with USB pen and Fedora | lilloraffa (6941) | Press F1 |
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| 316217 | 2005-01-20 23:00:00 | hi all, i'm a new linux user, so (as you could imagine) i've various little problems with configuring my system. One of these is: how to install a usb pen? I've just tried to do: mkdir /mnt/usbpen "vi /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbpen vfat noauto,user,async,rw 0 0 mount /mnt/usbpen" but what I obtain is that it can't read sda1 blocks. How can I do? Thanks to the comunity lilloraffa |
lilloraffa (6941) | ||
| 316218 | 2005-01-21 00:29:00 | I haven't got Fedora running at the moment but have a look through this thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) and see if following those suggestions gets you somewhere. Let us know how you get on. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 316219 | 2005-01-21 00:38:00 | Hi lilloraffa, welcome to PressF1. Vi... Good on you for going all the way as a Linux user ;) try: cat /proc/partitions It'll tell you if its registered it. Otherwise, type: dmesg it takes about 2 seconds after you've plugged it in to register it in dmesg (system messages). Are you mounting it as a user or as root? You may want to change: noauto,user,async,rw to: umask=000,users Mind giving us the _exact_ error? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 316220 | 2005-01-21 00:46:00 | thanks very, you're so kind! well this is the error: impossible to read the superblock (or something like that: i'm italian, and i don't know the exact translation of the error). i think what i've wrote in fstab may halp to find the error: /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbpen vfat umask=0022,user,ro 0 0 thanks again lilloraffa |
lilloraffa (6941) | ||
| 316221 | 2005-01-21 00:49:00 | Eureka! it was so simple that... I used hda insead of hda1 and it works! Thanks for helping me! see you soon lilloraffa |
lilloraffa (6941) | ||
| 316222 | 2005-01-21 00:51:00 | Try this command: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbpen -t vfat Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 316223 | 2005-01-21 00:55:00 | hda? You mean sda? If it was a hard drive it might be hda, but being a thumbdrive it _should_ definately by sda ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 316224 | 2005-01-21 01:07:00 | A lot of those USB drives have a weird quasi partition/file system on them that doesn't work too well under Linux. My DSE one had to be repartitioned and formatted before I could mount it. | ninja (1671) | ||
| 316225 | 2005-01-21 01:14:00 | oh scuse me. Yes sure, sda. | lilloraffa (6941) | ||
| 316226 | 2005-01-21 02:40:00 | Some just seem to prefer being mounted as an entire drive rather than partition 1. Why this is, Im not sure |
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