Guest Tomcat Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Hello everyone, How can I use my USB key on Mandrake 10.0...When I look in the /mnt directory all I have is the CDRom and Floppy directories and not usbkey. What should I do??? Thank you in advance. Tomcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Hello, welcome aboard! I'm not sure about 10.0, but if you haven't got an automatic hotplug service which recognises that something's been attached and mounts it for you, then you should be able to mount it yourself, you just need to know where in /dev/ the corresponding device is. In my case the USB key appeared on /dev/sda1 so to manually mount it from the console I did mount -w /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey where the directory /mnt/usbkey had been previously created using mkdir. The -w flag means make it writable too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 10.0 used supermount, if I'm not mistaken, which never worked as it should... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tomcat Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 Hi, Thanks for your help, actually I don't have a /dev/sda1but /dev/usb/hid which is empty, I tried : mount -w /dev/usb /mnt/usbkey The result was : mount: vous devez spécifier le type de système de fichiers Which means that I have to specify the system type of the files...What to do next??? Anyway thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynchmob Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 mount -t vfat /dev/usb /mnt/usbkey I don't think you need the -w option as it mounts read/write by default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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