Campy19 Posted February 23, 2004 Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 Ok, I can mount and unmount my usb devices with these commands: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera umount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera and now I have a couple of questions.... 1) What would the fstab entry be?? I take it noauto needs to be in there so the device is not mounted if it is not attached...correct?? 2) How do I safely detach the device w/o losing data?? 3) Anyway to get an icon in KDE to pop up on the desktop once it is attached?? I'm running kernel 2.6.3 and mandrake 9.2 Thanks, Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissy Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 (edited) i have a sony dsc p71 digital camera (i imagine my experience will probably apply to the whole p series). /dev/sdb1 /mnt/camera vfat user,ro,umask=0 0 0 as you can see, i was scared of losing my precious pictures to an accident with linux, so i played it safe with ro. I recommend you do the same, at least until you are confident. My device is sdb1, just because i already had a usb hard drive, use your sda1 if thats yours. -fissy ps, i'm using mine on the 2.6.3 kernel too, works like a charm edit: i missed out your kde questions, i'm a gnome user so can't really help, all i know is that i can unmount and mount by right clicking on the desktop. Be sure to unmount before you disconnect! that advice is even given in windows, albeit in different words. Edited February 24, 2004 by fissy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat user,rw,noauto,suid,umask=0 0 0 If you're not sure of an option just leave it out. With this in the fstab you just type "mount /dev/sda1" in console and an icon pops on the desktop, then "umount /dev/sda1" makes it disappear. If it doesn't, right click on the desktop and configure the desktop icons to show it when it's mounted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 Note: you can also do: mount /mnt/camera and umount with that path... Also: if you umount, and all is well, (no error) you can safely disconnect the drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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