[Bio-Linux] USB flash-drive on Bio-linux
Tim Booth
tbooth at ceh.ac.uk
Thu May 4 12:13:47 EDT 2006
Hi Jose,
Your machine has SCSI drives, so your main hard drive is /dev/sda, your
second drive is /dev/sdb and the first thing you hotplug will end up
as /dev/sdc.
Therefore the correct line for /etc/fstab is:
/dev/sdc1 /media/usbkey vfat user,noauto 0 0
Does that work for you?
Also some USB keys just don't want to play ball and come up as /dev/sdc
(no number 1 on the end) or else need repartitioning from scratch to
work on Linux.
Cheers,
TIM
ps. There is a system called HAL which will one day soon make all this
stuff go away, but at the moment you only get it with Ubuntu Linux.
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:56 -0400, Jose A. Andres wrote:
> Tony,
> Thanks for your quick answer to my naive question
>
> if I type df I only see
> /dev/sda1 mounted on /
> tmpfs mounted on /dev/shm
>
> So seems that I am not able to mount the flashdrive (which is formatted
> in DOS (can this be the source of error?)
>
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