Ironfighter Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 I have a USB key which I use to transfer files from a Windows box to my Linux box. I have just realised that I can´t write to the key from my Linux box. Is this possible - if so how do I go about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 What file format are you using for the USB (fat, fat32, ntfs, etc..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 No prob, unless Windows have formatted it as NTFS. Use FAT(32), and you are set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironfighter Posted December 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2005 Thank you for your replys. I t appears to have sorted itself out. I tried everything yesterday but couldn´t get it to work. Come to think of it my box did a couple of strange things yesterday - like I lost the user and location text in terminal windows. Any way since I fired it up again today everything is OK. By the way - for future reference how do I determine what file system the USB key us formatted in - sad to say I don´ know how to do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynchmob Posted December 31, 2005 Report Share Posted December 31, 2005 Open a terminal and type: df -T (That's a upper-case T) HTH lynchmob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironfighter Posted January 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Thank you - this is what I got :- Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 ext3 4.5G 2.4G 1.9G 56% / /dev/hda6 ext3 2.8G 1.4G 1.5G 48% /home /dev/hdc iso9660 26M 26M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom /dev/sda1 vfat 489M 13M 476M 3% /mnt/removable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynchmob Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 As root, type mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable You should be able to copy/paste from konqueror after that. lynchmob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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