[ale] USB Pendrive on RH 8.0

[Robert L. Harris]

Oh, if you write any data, MAKE SURE YOU "sync" and unmount before you
unplug the device or you can probably kiss your filesystem goodbye.



Thus spake Robert L. Harris (Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net):

> 
> 
> Sorry, deleted the original so I'll need to reply here.
> 
> I use a couple of these (one is a backup that has a cracked case) that I
> use for storing my gpg keys, password list (gpg encrypted) pics of my
> wife, etc.  Works great.
> 
> USB and scsi emulation are compiled into the kernel, scsi generic
> device, usb mass storage and the filesystems are modules.
> 
> Steps:
>   Physically plug in the drive
>   modprobe usb-storage
>   modprobe sg
>   modprobe fat
>   modprobe vfat
>   mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/mnt -t vfat -o uid=nomad
>   cd /tmp/mnt
> 
> 
> Works great.  For some reason auto-loading the modules doesn't work
> right so I can't put it in autofs.
> 
> Robert
> 
> Thus spake Michael D. Hirsch (mhirsch at nubridges.com):
> 
> > On Tuesday 15 April 2003 10:20 am, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if this political discussion group is the right place to
> > > ask this, but here goes.....:->
> > >
> > > I bought a generic USB pendrive under the hope of using it to transfer
> > > image files from my RH8 box to the wife's Windoze box.
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble getting the pendrive mounted.
> > >
> > > I've looked for the usual online resources, and they all point to it
> > > appearing like a SCSI drive, and mounting /dev/sda1.  However, all my
> > > attempts to do this fail int he mount (I have no real SCSI devices on
> > > the box).
> > >
> > > Anyone have good pointers and/or hints?
> > 
> > First, tell us what you see in /var/log/messages when you plug the drive 
> > in.  run "tail -f /var/log/messages" as root, then plug it in.  The 
> > messages you get should be a hint as to what is happening and maybe how to 
> > mount the device.  Post the messages and people can probably help figure 
> > it out.
> > 
> > Michael
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> 
> :wq!
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