On Saturday 18 October 2008 01:45:57 Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi. I want to know how to manually mount a usb stick on my debian
> system, but I'm a bit confused about something.
>
It should be fairly automatic. From your log excerpt it looks like almost
everything is working.
> [318078.341408] usb 3-6: Product: U3 Cruzer Micro
> [318078.341409] usb 3-6: Manufacturer: SanDisk
Here's a problem. Avoid these U3 drives. They have this CD-ROM image on them
that insists on loading. If you delete the image on a Linux box and sometime
in the future insert the key into a Windows machine that has had a U3 device
inserted, you'll get it back. For no other reason than SanDisk thinks they
have a right to keep putting that junk on your USB key, avoid these.
(snip)
>
> However, when I try (as root) to mount these with
> mount /dev/sda /media/usb (after creating the usb directory, of course)
> The only message I get is 'mount: no medium found'. Same with
> /dev/sdb... etc.
>
It detected the /dev/sde1 partition, but didn't mount it. Is the SanDisk
formatted with NTFS? If so, do you have ntfs-3g or fuse installed?
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