USB pen

You probally have it formatted as NTFS or FAT32. Dump these and format the drive as FAT then just mount it normally.

Cheers I'll give it a go.

Either Do mount -t vfat or mount -t usbfs ... try vfat first...

find where its located with dmesg then add a line to your fstab and just use auto and then from now on you can mount /dev/usbstick and it will auto mount and you odnt have to worry about what fs it is. since i never make sense explaining stuff heres my line:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive auto noauto,rw 0 0

so /dev/sda1 is where it is. i mkdir'ed /mnt/usbdrive and it mounts read/write. I dont know what the 0 0 means so maybe someone can explain that.

tgo said:

I dont know what the 0 0 means so maybe someone can explain that.

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The man page explains it pretty well.

i think we should make a sticky on this topic because it is such a common problem, in fact i remember having it when i first installed slackware 9 (my very first distro was slack 7) and bought a 64mb thumby.

Yes... mounting is a difficult concept for newbies to understand about linux...

Mmm...

Yeah thanks for the help... I think I can figure this out. Not home to try it until tomorrow though. I've been away for a good while. I'll let you know. Thanks,
Thev