[aklug] Re: Confused -- manually mounting usb in Debian

From: Richard Moore <dewey.moore@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Oct 18 2008 - 10:07:50 AKDT

First off I would put it in a windows machine and get rid of the U3 software
before you tried mounting it.
 I believe they are NTFS drives
so I would the the mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sde1 /media/usb/ or just ntfs-3g
/dev/sde1 /media/usb/
Richard

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:02 AM, James Zuelow <e5z8652@zuelow.net> wrote:

> 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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