On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 21:59 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > yufan wrote: > > i remember last time when i plugged in a thumb drive the system would > > auto mount the drive for me but now it no longer works.and even worse > > i cannot mount the thumbdrive when i type "mount -t fat /dev/sda > > /mnt/temp" under root. My kernel version is 2.6.11-1.14. anyone know > > what's wrong with that? > > > 1. The type should be vfat, not fat. 2. /dev/sda is the entire device, not the partition. It should be /dev/sda1 or similar. 3. Does /mnt/temp exist? > Try > mount /media/u<TAB> > It should expand to /media/usbdisk and mount /dev/sda1 (not sda). > > The name may not be usbdisk, but it should show up in /media and thus the command above with the proper name should work. Different devices get different labels in /media when plugged in. Mine is " mount /media/UDISK_2.0 " to mount as my user, or as root I can do "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/UDISK_2.0"
