USB Flash stick
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon May 17 17:03:09 UTC 2004
Andy Green wrote:
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> On Monday 17 May 2004 15:27, Robin Laing wrote:
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>>I have found that the usb stick isn't always recognized as /dev/sda1
>>but sometimes /dev/sdb1. I found this by tailing the messages log
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> One way this can happen is if you forgot to umount it. Automount (aka autofs)
> is a cool service that monitors the mountpoint (ie, /mnt/flash or whatever)
> and dynamically mounts the associated device on access. Then a configurable
> period after the last access, eg, 2 seconds, it automatically and cleanly
> unmounts the device. usbautomount (see the URL in my sig) uses this to make
> USB devices accesses a lot simpler.
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>>I find that plugging the camera into the computer changes things as
>>well. USB needs more work from my point of view.
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> There is a devlabel service as well that can make available /dev/sdn at a
> fixed alias depending on what it is, but I didn't look into it yet.
The problem was that I hadn't even mounted the stick yet. This
happened the very first time that I plugged the stick in.
I played with autofs and the stick would mount some times and then
others it wouldn't. I just gave up as I needed to get some work done.
I will check out your site though. I would like autofs to work.
I think it may have something to do with changing usb devices.
When time permits I will take another look at it.
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Robin Laing
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