help with USB drive

[Yuandan Zhang]

Charles Li wrote:

>Its formated as vfat.  When I plug it in, the light on
>the drive stays on for about 1 minute and then its
>off.  Also, I did not get anything from the
>/var/log/messages file with the tail -f.  When I do a
>fdisk -l, it did not show up as well. ???
>
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make sure you have root access to do
/sbin/fdisk -l


>--- Pedro Fernandes Macedo
><webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br> wrote:
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>>ehemdal wrote:
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>>>mkdir /media/usbdisk
>>>chmod 777 /media/usbdisk # setting permissions for
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>>ease of use
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>>>mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk
>>>
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>>I'd suggest doing a tail -f /var/log/messages  while
>>plugging the 
>>device. This way , you'll know for sure if it's
>>recognized as sda or sdb 
>>(in my computer , I never got any pendrive to be
>>recognized as sdb , but 
>>yesterday on my friend's computer , his pendrive was
>>recognized as sdb , 
>>even though it was the only USB/SCSI device).
>>
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>>>If you have a USB disk that is an NTFS volume, I
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>>am not sure how far 
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>>>you can get, because I haven't worked on NTFS
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>>support. But I found I 
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>>>could build a new filesystem with
>>>
>>>mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda
>>>
>>>Then it was easy to mount.
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>>If it's NTFS volume , then he'd need the NTFS module
>>, available on 
>>livna and on the NTFS project homepage 
>>(http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/).  All
>>instructions needed are 
>>available on the NTFS project homepage.
>>
>>--
>>Pedro Macedo
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