sellis Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 First, some background. I have a new installation of Mandrake 10.0 (downloaded), virtually "out of the box", apart from installation of Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and a load of documents from my old drive. I also have a QSI Intelligent Stick flash drive, 128M, which I am having trouble with. I've looked through the various forum answers, and haven't seen a description of the behavior that I see, but please forgive me if I have missed an existing post. Thanks to various posts that I have found, I can successfully mount the flash drive when it is plugged in (although I don't see anything new on the KDE desktop, as some people have suggested). So, if I see that the drive is at /dev/sda, I can mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb ...and copy files off the drive. So far, so good. So, I now want to add that to my fstab. This is OK until I unplug the device and plug it back in. Now, it has the designation /dev/sdb. If I do it again, it is /dev/sdc. (It also shows up under /dev/scsi/host0/... etc, with the host number incrementing by one every time I unplug it.) Naturally, I want to be able to plug and unplug this drive as I transfer files from one place to another, but I also want to add it to my fstab, so I can create a device icon for it on the KDE desktop. This requires that it has a stable /dev/something designation. Ideally, I'd like to see something like the floppy or CDROM behavior, where the icon appears when the device is present, and is removed when it is unplugged. As I say, it's a fresh installation of Mandrake and I'm learning the ins and outs of Linux as I go, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Sean I'm not a rocket scientist, but I play one on TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellis Posted August 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 ... So, if I see that the drive is at /dev/sda, I can mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb ...and copy files off the drive. So far, so good. So, I now want to add that to my fstab. This is OK until I unplug the device and plug it back in. Now, it has the designation /dev/sdb. If I do it again, it is /dev/sdc. Well, I think I cracked it - stupid error, as usual. I wasn't unmounting the drive before I unplugged it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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