Charles Li wrote:
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. ???
make sure you have root access to do /sbin/fdisk -l
--- Pedro Fernandes Macedo
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ehemdal wrote:
mkdir /media/usbdiskease of use
chmod 777 /media/usbdisk # setting permissions for
I'd suggest doing a tail -f /var/log/messages whilemount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk
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, Iam not sure how far
you can get, because I haven't worked on NTFSsupport. But I found I
If it's NTFS volume , then he'd need the NTFS modulecould build a new filesystem with
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda
Then it was easy to mount.
, 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
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