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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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316227 2005-01-21 04:48:00 The few systems I have mounted usb thumb drives on, I have noticed that sda1 is a symbolic link which points at sda, strange I know. beama (111)
316228 2005-01-21 05:16:00 It shouldnt be :-/ Chilling_Silence (9)
316229 2005-01-21 07:45:00 Whatever is happening here, it has to be slightly out of the ordinary. With FC3 (or are you using FC1 or 2?), the whole process should be totally automatic with the pen drive being mounted under /media and an icon appearing ready for use on the desktop. This should happen straight out of the box with no manual changes to /etc/fstab. This is to do with the udev program. johnd (85)
316230 2005-01-21 10:05:00 Somebody mentioned they were using ivman? Chilling_Silence (9)
316231 2005-01-22 01:10:00 Some just seem to prefer being mounted as an entire drive rather than partition 1.

Why this is, Im not sure

It may be that most aren't partitioned as more than one area... maybe the partition table looks different after it's been sub partitioned, then changed back.

It's all a bit complicated anyway ... the device is recognised as a usb-storage device, which the software pretends is a SCSI disk.
Graham L (2)
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