[luau] thumb drive

Alvin Murphy amurphy at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Sep 26 14:09:00 PDT 2003


Most of you probably know how to do this, but it took me a while to 
figure out how to use my usb thumb drive; so just in case there are 
others out there of equivalent newbieness, here goes:

> Just in case somebody else asks, here is how to set up your drive for 
> linux: first make a place to connect, i.e. mount it to. I chose 
> /mnt/usb, but it could be anywhere. So, as root, mkdir /mnt/usb; then 
> change the permissions there to give yourself access. Then when you 
> insert your drive, your system should "see it" automagically as drive 
> "sda". So the following command will mount it to the above location: 
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda mnt/usb. You should then be able to read your 
> files using any standard Konqueror or similar filemanager. I was 
> trying to access files that were vfat of course (windows); you may 
> have to specify another file system if you are dong something else. 
> Good luck
>





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