Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

["Lord Sauron" <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>]

On 3/31/06, b.n. <brullonulla@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyways, I've been working to try and mount my USB Flash disk so that
> > I can use the stuff I backed up from my old Kubuntu install.  However,
> > /dev/sda1 isn't in /etc/fstab, though usbfs is in /etc/mtab.
>  >
> > Well, I've narrowed it down to at least one thing: I don't have a
> > mount point for my poor USB Disk.
>
> If you have and /etc/fstab, and you already know your usb flash disk is
> /dev/sda1, well, just add the right fstab entry.
> Mine looks this way:

I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1?  I thought fstab was
generated by the machine or something, and that it isn't a terribly
good idea to edit it.

I'll try that now.

> /dev/sda1      /mnt/removable      vfat      noauto,async,user,exec 0 0

I don't have a /mnt directory.  Should I just create one?

>  > I looked through *all* the 1,400
> > some-odd lines in the mount command's man page, however, I got no
> > clues, not even a related command.  I also # ls /bin to see if there
> > was anything there...  I didn't see anything that made sense to me.
>
> your effort is nice, but have you thought about Google or another search
> engine?

Not until line 1,200... oh, and I wasn't connected at the time, so... 
I hope you understand : )

> > I've only ever mounted stuff using the graphical tool that Kubuntu
> > supplied, so that's where my ignorance comes from.
>
> I think you refer to the
> "hey-my-usb-disk-appears-magically-on-my-desktop!" trick. I guess it's
> managed by HAL, you can have it on Gentoo too (don't ask me for info,
> since I don't use it)

No, I had to manually create a mount point via the GUI and then enable
the thing and all this stuff.  Then KDE just looked at /media and
slapped that on my desktop.  I mounted my windows partition (back when
I had one) on /media so that I could have that on my desktop too.

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