mounting a USB drive

[David Bruzos]

Hi:
If your device is a standard usb disk, all you have to do is specify the device, FS and mount-point.  Type something like:
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/your_mount_point
You have to do this as root.  The FS should be detected automatically.  Fat32 is "vfat".  If you want to be able to mount 
the device as a regular user, you have to put it in the /etc/fstab file.  The device is going to be something like 
/dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 or something like that.  USB drives are used over the SCSI emulation layer, so they show up as SCSI 
devices.
However, there is a very nice system called "HAL" 
that will make the removable storage devices mount on the fly.  "HAL" is cool!  If you are using Debian testing, it will be 
there.

HTH

David B.

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:35:01PM -0500, Glenn at home wrote:
> I have a USB 20GB drive which is really my RockBox JukeBox (Archos), and I 
> want to mount it using Knoppix with my Debian system.
> It is essentially a USB 20GB 2.5 inch hard drive with a FAT32 file system.
> I did try typing mount, and also the DF command, and it seems, from what I 
> read,  that I would use:
> mount /dev/pts
> and it wants to know the file system.
> All that I can see in mount is usbfs.
> Does Linux see FAT32 as fat32?  Or do I use some other terminology for this 
> kind of FS?
> Thanks
> 
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