mounting a usbkey

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

hi im trying to mount a usb key, I know it found it because when I do an lsusb it says

mikecore · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 342 Location: Toledo, Ohio

I found mine under

/dev/ub/a/part1

It used to be under "/dev/usb" but i updated my system and world
after that it changed to what it is now <-- don't know why <--really didn't care too
much, but it would be nice to know why it changed!

anyhow try there.

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

never mounted any usb thing in linux before so no clue even how to tell if I have found it, all though I would assume it would be a directory in /dev/ whose subdirectory has all my usb files in it, but there is not /dev/ub :cry:

mikecore · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 342 Location: Toledo, Ohio

did you build support for usb storage into your kernel?

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

yeah, have it enabled in biios turns out sda1 was there I was just bieng retarded and I still cant mount it, but i know it detects it because of lsusb, if i know it detects it, isnt there some way of finding out hwere it is?

mikecore · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 342 Location: Toledo, Ohio

yeah, have it enabled in biios turns out sda1 was there I was just bieng retarded and I still cant mount it"

It must be built into the kernel or as a module that can be loaded.

You need vfat file system support in the kernel
You USB support in the kernel under "device drivers" section and under that you need mass
storage support. those are all options for the kernel config.

Im not sure what you ment it is enabled in the bios

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

yeah, I meant to say kernel, have all those compiled in.

HoLzPLatTeN · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 8:40 am Post subject:

Check your kernel config: usb storage and scsi disk support is needed to be able to mount a usb storage device.
You will also need vfat or ntfs support if it has a vfat or ntfs filesystem

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-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

affirmative, made sure vfat, ntfs, usb support, and usb mass storage device support were in my bios, wait I dont think i did scsi support, I'll go double check that, but doesnt the fact that lsusb lists the usbdrive mean that my bios is detecting it and assigning a driver to it?

racer_alpha · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 25

There is two seperate sections in the kernel that deal with mounting a USB filesystem. You want to enable the older one that uses SCSI, and disable the newer one as it can cause some goofiness (read the help on any option pertaining to USB Disks... one of them says it can break something, that's the one you want to disable). The newer one puts your USB stuff in something like /dev/ub/only_god_or_linus_knows, and the older SCSI option put's it under something like /dev/sda1. Then I suggest looking into HAL and DBUS and whatnot, those programs can help you mount this stuff automatically.

Frelon · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject:

I have an Ipod shuffle and it can't be recognize with the front usbay port.
Otherwise, with the rear ones no problem.
add something like tath in teh /etc/fstab (and mkdir /mnt/ipod):
/dev/sda1 /mnt/ipod vfat sync,user,noauto,umask=000 0 0

then mount /mnt/ipod.

(nota : gtkpod really rOOx where itunes Sux)
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