[Bio-Linux] USB flash-drive on Bio-linux

[Tim Booth]

Hi Jose,

Your machine has SCSI drives, so your main hard drive is /dev/sda, your
second drive is /dev/sdb and the first thing you hotplug will end up
as /dev/sdc.

Therefore the correct line for /etc/fstab is:

/dev/sdc1   /media/usbkey   vfat    user,noauto     0       0

Does that work for you?

Also some USB keys just don't want to play ball and come up as /dev/sdc
(no number 1 on the end) or else need repartitioning from scratch to
work on Linux.

Cheers,

TIM

ps.  There is a system called HAL which will one day soon make all this
stuff go away, but at the moment you only get it with Ubuntu Linux.

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:56 -0400, Jose A. Andres wrote:
> Tony,
> Thanks for your quick answer to my naive question
> 
> if I type df I only see
> /dev/sda1       mounted on /
>  tmpfs             mounted on /dev/shm
> 
>  So seems that I am not able to mount the flashdrive (which is formatted
> in DOS (can this be the source of error?)
>