> I inserted a USB flash drive to the USB slot. man -k usb told me about > lsusb, and the device is recognized. How do I access it (mount it)? [I > don't think hotplugging is set up, but I want to do it manually, so > please, don't teach me how to set up hotplugging].
Once you have the device recognized it means you've already got it hotplugged. Probably you meant that you don't want how to set up automounting the device? Typically, when you plug the USB drive in, it'll get assigned a pseudo-scsi interface in the kernel, and thus get some device name like /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. You can see the name through the kernel messages, or through the /proc filesystem. The problem is that if you have 2 similar drives, you have no control over which one will become sda and what sdb. You should be using udev to write a rule that creates a symlink accordingly to the drive make/label/capacity/whatever, but I won't elaborate as this sometimes is also designated as the very hotplugging you asked not to be taught. Now that you know the device name, whether directly smth like /dev/sda or indirectly like an automatically created symlink like /dev/myusbdrive -> sda, you should be using the regular ways to mount the drive. If a non-one-time operation, you should add an appropriate line to /etc/fstab, and then use mount(8) to mount it, or you can directly specify both the device partition name and the target mount point name on the command line. HTH, VKh ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
