[wplug] USB Datakey - mount as drive on ThinkPad/PH9?
Alexandros Papadopoulos
apapadop at cmu.edu
Wed Jul 7 03:56:53 EDT 2004
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 07:11, James O'Kane wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Jennifer Landefeld wrote:
> > A colleague needs to transfer a file from a USB datakey to the
> > ThinkPad running RH9. Do we need to mount the drive. We plug it in
> > and the led lights but it's nowhere to be found. What would I do to
> > mount it as a drive?
>
> My drive shows up as /dev/sda1 which I can then mount under
> /mnt/flash. Right after you plug it in, run dmesg or check
> /var/log/messages for a clue on which device name it shows up as.
...to add to that, probably something of the
mkdir -p /mnt/flash && mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
should do the trick.
You can also check if the flash card is readable as a device with
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
That usually exposes the Partition Table From Hell (4 overlapping
partitions, in most USB sticks I've seen), which should be reformatted
with fdisk into something sane.
-A
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