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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:34 AM

I have been using an ARCHOS Jukebox 6000 under windows for sometime and
would like now to run it under Linux Red Hat 8.0.

I have detected that the system detects the USB device and creates a record
in /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/1 with data about the device.

My question is: How do I mount this device? Do I have to touch the
/etc/fstab file? I did that and almost blocked the system.

Advice will be much appreciatted

Thanks

Carlos

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:34 AM

Carlos wrote:

> My question is: How do I mount this device? Do I have to touch the
> /etc/fstab file? I did that and almost blocked the system.

The device file is /dev/sda (given that you don't have any SCSI disks).
Partition is (usually) 1 and file system (usually) vfat. Might be a good
idea to first mount it read-only and check whether it works out.

-Timo

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:34 AM

Hello

Carlos (<garciasuarez@ya.com>) wrote:

> Timo Voipio wrote:
>
>> Carlos wrote:
>>
>>> My question is: How do I mount this device? Do I have to touch the
>>> /etc/fstab file? I did that and almost blocked the system.
>>
>> The device file is /dev/sda (given that you don't have any SCSI
>> disks). Partition is (usually) 1 and file system (usually) vfat.
>> Might be a good idea to first mount it read-only and check whether it
>> works out.
>
> Thanks, by do I need to touch fstab or can I just use mount -t vfat

You can of course mount it without changing fstab if you tell the mount
programm the parameters, however if you make an entry in your fstab you
can also allow users to mount the device, without an entry normally
only root will be allowed to mount it.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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#4 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:34 AM

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:17:34 +0200, Carlos <garciasuarez@ya.com> wrote:
> Timo Voipio wrote:
> > Carlos wrote:
> >> My question is: How do I mount this device? Do I have to touch the
> >> /etc/fstab file? I did that and almost blocked the system.
> > The device file is /dev/sda (given that you don't have any SCSI disks).
> > Partition is (usually) 1 and file system (usually) vfat. Might be a good
> > idea to first mount it read-only and check whether it works out.
> > -Timo
> Thanks, by do I need to touch fstab or can I just use mount -t vfat .....?

hi,
you don't need to touch fstab at all,
but you should really take a look at
man 5 fstab
man 8 mount
to understand why.

regards, Frank

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