auto-mounting memory stick

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at canonical.com
Fri Oct 8 13:02:32 UTC 2004


Hi!

Jan Kokoska [2004-10-08 13:14 +0100]:
> My USB flash formatted in MS Win (back when I cared) had no partition
> table.. so if above went fine, I could mount it directly by
> "mount /dev/sda /mnt/usb". First goes device, second mount point, if it
> asks for type, "-t vfat" is usually what you want to add for USB.

Please do not use mount as root. Please also check whether

  pmount /dev/sda    (or sda1, or sdb, or whatever)

mounts your device (executed as user, not with sudo).

Martin

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