how do i access a usb key in linux redhat?

Panda

noob to linux and i need a hand.
its probably blatently obvious but how do you access a usb key in linux Redhat?

i need to use a program thats only available to me for use with linux and its on my usb key,
it would probably be just as easy to burn a cd but i'd like to kno.

thanks...

eggshapedfred

change to the root user (su -)
then make a directory in /mnt (something like /mnt/usbdrive )

then:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive

you can set up fstab so that you only have to type
mount /mnt/usbdrive
to mount it. the fstab entry should be something like:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive vfat noauto,users 0 0

if you only want to copy stuff from it this one time the first set of commands will do ya. if you want to set up fstab I'd check google as I'm not 100% on the fstab line...

HTH

Panda

thanks for the speedy reply, off to try it now.

rsynnott

Panda wrote:

noob to linux and i need a hand.
its probably blatently obvious but how do you access a usb key in linux Redhat?

i need to use a program thats only available to me for use with linux and its on my usb key,
it would probably be just as easy to burn a cd but i'd like to kno.

thanks...

In some versions, there may be an automount thing. Try doing "ls /mnt/removable", "ls /mnt/removable2","ls /mnt/usb1", "ls /mnt/usb1". It may just work

Also, if you do have to do it manually, it may not be at /dev/sda if you have any other devices that Linux likes to believe are SCSI. Examples include PATA-RAID and all varieties of SATA. If sda doesn't work, try sdb, and so on.
Rob.

Fenster

Add the following line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1		/mnt/flash		vfat	noauto,defaults,user	0 0

Then you just type "mount /dev/sda1" and it will mount to /mnt/flash.