Its formated as vfat. When I plug it in, the light on the drive stays on for about 1 minute and then its off. Also, I did not get anything from the /var/log/messages file with the tail -f. When I do a fdisk -l, it did not show up as well. ??? --- Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ehemdal wrote: > > > mkdir /media/usbdisk > > chmod 777 /media/usbdisk # setting permissions for > ease of use > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk > > > I'd suggest doing a tail -f /var/log/messages while > plugging the > device. This way , you'll know for sure if it's > recognized as sda or sdb > (in my computer , I never got any pendrive to be > recognized as sdb , but > yesterday on my friend's computer , his pendrive was > recognized as sdb , > even though it was the only USB/SCSI device). > > > If you have a USB disk that is an NTFS volume, I > am not sure how far > > you can get, because I haven't worked on NTFS > support. But I found I > > could build a new filesystem with > > > > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda > > > > Then it was easy to mount. > > If it's NTFS volume , then he'd need the NTFS module > , available on > livna and on the NTFS project homepage > (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/). All > instructions needed are > available on the NTFS project homepage. > > -- > Pedro Macedo > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
