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Mounting USB Drive in Knoppix
Name: RTAdams89 Date: April 20, 2004 at 18:09:15 Pacific OS: na CPU/Ram: na
Comment:
I'm having trouble mounting a USB thumb drive in Knoppix STD. I've tried mounting all teh usb ports but none of them work. Mybe I'm typing something wrong. Waht is the proper syntax to mount a usb thumbdrive(formatted as fat or fat32)?
Name: Jake Date: April 21, 2004 at 01:47:57 Pacific
Reply:
This should work:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/directory_that_exists
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Response Number 2
Name: taurus Date: April 21, 2004 at 04:38:17 Pacific
Reply:
If you look at the command dmesg, it will tell you the name of your USB drive! On my system, I do
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/USB (since my external SCSI drive is known as /dev/sda1...)
taurus
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Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave Date: April 22, 2004 at 08:29:14 Pacific
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To follow on from taurus, the USB mass storage will make a thumb drive (same for cameras, external USB hard drives etc) the first available SCSI device on your system, if you have no SCSI discs it will probably be /dev/sda1.
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Response Number 4
Name: zarehz Date: May 5, 2004 at 14:45:52 Pacific
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I had the same problem. My IOmega Zip drive was sda1 so my USB device came out to be sdb1. However, now I have another problem. I cannot access the mounted device unless I am logged in as Root. I have tried changing permissions but it did not work. How can I access it with my regular user account? Thank you.
Create an entry in your /etc/fstab and add the "user" option to allow regular users to mount the device. An example from my fstab for a digital camera: /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto user,noauto,owner 0 0
If it is formated to FAT (eg as opposed to usbfs etc) then you could add the "umask=0" flag.
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