[Linux4christians] Mounting My USB Flashdrive Query

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Saturday 03 March 2007 10:55:53 pm Tony Gulyas wrote:
> I got a 2 gig JetFlash USB drive (pendrive),
> and in the pdf manual it tells me to do this for ...
> Driver installation for Linux Kernel 2.4.2 or later
>
> ... no drivers required, Just plug the JetFlash ito the USB port and mount
> it. ... Example: 1. First creat a directory for the JetFlash
>                         - mkdir /mnt/jetflash
>                     2. Mount the JetFlash
>                       - mount -a -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/jetflash
>
> I did all this in terminal window in  my linux desktop.. (I am using fedora
> core 6) and I get the following error messege when trying to access this
> USB pendrive
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Error while copying to "/mnt/JetFlash"
> You do not have permissions to write to this folder
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> When I click on Jetflash icon on desktop, in permissions tab on the right
> click it says SELinux Context: mnt_t ... owner is root and all other
> options in permissions tab are greyed out.
>
> I get a drive icon on my linux desktop that says 1.9 GB removeable Volume
> and can access a window when I click on it, but cannot copy files to that
> drive. As noted above linux tells me I do not have permission to mount this
> drive volume (the USB pendrive).
>
> Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

You normally don't have to do anything at all with most modern Distros, Fedora 
6 being one of them.  Udev should mount the drive for you.  When you put the 
pen drive in the usb slot, does a prompt come up asking what you want to do 
with it?  It should ask if you want to do nothing, open a new window etc.  I 
have a 250 GB external WD Hard Drive and it picks that up perfectly in 
Kubuntu.

However, if there is no file system at all, you may need to su to root and 
format it.  I would use Fat as that will port to Windows or Linux. 

You can then encrypt it with trucrypt, or something of the like, which is free 
and works in both Linux and Windows.


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See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
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