From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FocCT-0001JE-3E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:18:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k598GLNS020578; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:16:21 GMT Received: from locutus.daevid.com (c-24-16-16-159.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [24.16.16.159]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5988tI0027951 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:08:55 GMT Received: by locutus.daevid.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 13F1E1C7779; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 01:12:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Daevid Vincent To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] help with UDEV and USB flash drive Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 01:12:50 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606090112.51693.daevid@daevid.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1f994c1d-bdcc-4657-ad13-279abf4cf358 X-Archives-Hash: 5a5efba9ca9c9165830cc8520aa9fb93 I've been googling and hacking at this for about three hours now. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? locutus mnt # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules # This is for my Intelligent Stick USB Memory flash drive BUS=="usb", SYSFS{serial}=="20031112223132-01", NAME="istick", MODE="0666" locutus linux # cat /etc/fstab # Intelligent Stick flash drive (UDEV) /dev/istick /mnt/istick vfat defaults,noauto,user,umask=000 0 0 locutus linux # ll /dev/istick crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 21, 1 Jun 9 00:32 /dev/istick locutus linux # mount /dev/istick mount: /dev/istick is not a block device But after a long night, I tried this and was shocked to see it works: locutus linux # ll /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Jun 9 00:32 /dev/sda1 locutus linux # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/istick/ locutus linux # ls /mnt/istick/ MIDI Files pwsafe.key So, why doesn't my /dev/istick work? I assume it has to do with that 'b' on /dev/sda1 and the 'c' on /dev/istick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list