On 2006-01-05 15:28, Teilhard Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can someone tell me, or point to me where I can find, how to
mount a Flash Disk in release 6.0? I have Googled, but I simply
cannot find the right way. An icon to mount and unmount on the
desktop would be nice. Thanks.
When I plug my USB JetFlash disk, the following appears in
/var/log/messages (and the system console, but I mostly use X11
these days):
umass0: USB Flash Disk, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
da0: 250MB (512000 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 250C)
I get something similar too. The Device Node is created all right.
When you plug the USB flash disk in, /dev/da0 (or another daX
device) is automatically created. If the flash disk already has
partitions (they usually come with a single FAT partition),
you'll also see da0s1 or something similar:
# ls -l /dev/da*
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 4, 44 Oct 16 17:38 /dev/da0
Yes, I also get something similar to this.
If you see only da0, it's possible that the 'raw disk' is
formatted using FAT, without a real BIOS-style partition, which
means that you should be able to 'mount' it with something like:
# /sbin/mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt
I do not only see da0 above and this command results in: "mount_msdosfs:
/dev/da0: Invalid argument"
That's it. Copy files to and from the /mnt directory. When you
are done, make sure you unmount the flash disk before removing
it. If you don't, chances are your kernel will panic when it
discovers the physical flash disk is gone.
# umount /mnt
Now, it's safe to pull the flash disk out.
You told me how to mount my flash disk in case the command "ls -l /dev/da0"
results incomplete or I have the disk raw formatted. But what should I do if
I get all similar to what you get? In other words, how do you mount your
flash disk?
Thanks for your feedback.
Teilhard.
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