How do I access an external usb 2.0 harddrive? I have read a couple of "How-tos", but something isn't registering in my brain. I've had a very bad day!
Sarah Fish Saratoga Springs, NY
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 06:19, Sarah Fish wrote:
How do I access an external usb 2.0 harddrive? I have read a couple of "How-tos", but something isn't registering in my brain. I've had a very bad day!
Plug it in. Watch /var/log/messages (tail -f /var/log/messages as root). See what the device gets registered as.
Generally, it should work such that you perform: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/extdisk
Where vfat is the filesystem type of the usb hard drive, /dev/sda1 is what you picked up from the messages, and /mnt/extdisk is the path to mount it.
All the best.
Colin Charles wrote:
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 06:19, Sarah Fish wrote:
How do I access an external usb 2.0 harddrive? I have read a couple of "How-tos", but something isn't registering in my brain. I've had a very bad day!
Plug it in. Watch /var/log/messages (tail -f /var/log/messages as root). See what the device gets registered as.
Generally, it should work such that you perform: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/extdisk
Where vfat is the filesystem type of the usb hard drive, /dev/sda1 is what you picked up from the messages, and /mnt/extdisk is the path to mount it.
All the best.
Keep in mind that you cannot mount an usb drive from /etc/fstab, because it is an usb-scsi emulation, put the mount in /etc/rc.local like fsck -p /dev/sda1 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
Do you need it as /usr or so, then you might put this in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit after the initialization of usb.
sincerly
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