Mounting usb stuff in Fedora

seth556 · 08-12-2008, 07:52 PM

I have Fedora 9 installed, I was orginally using KDE but since it was hogging my ram I switched to gnome (much easier on the ram). But now when I plug in a usb device it doesn't automatically mount. The main reason I need to mount something from usb is so I can connect to my calculator but my pendrive doesn't mount ether.

So how do I get usb stuff to automatically mount? Or at the very least how can I manually mount a usb device?

TB0ne · 08-13-2008, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by seth556

I have Fedora 9 installed, I was orginally using KDE but since it was hogging my ram I switched to gnome (much easier on the ram). But now when I plug in a usb device it doesn't automatically mount. The main reason I need to mount something from usb is so I can connect to my calculator but my pendrive doesn't mount ether.

So how do I get usb stuff to automatically mount? Or at the very least how can I manually mount a usb device?

I'm not a Gnome user, but to manually mount a drive, you need two things:

- The name of the device
- Where you want to mount it (the mount point)

Usually the mount point is just a directory. I'd suggest making a directory, just for mounting external drives, something like /media/usbdrive, or /mnt/thumbdrive. Whatever you want to call it.

Then, you need to know what the name of the device is. Plug it in, and you should see a device under /dev, something like /dev/sdb1, or something along those lines. Plug the device in, then run "dmesg" and look at the bottom of that output...should give you a basic device name. if you have three partitions on the device, and your main hard drive is /dev/sda, you'll probably see /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2, and /dev/sdb3 (the sdb is your device, the 1/2/3 are the partitions on it). To mount it, try:

mount /dev/sdb1 /your/mount/point

Or something to that effect. Sorry I can't help you with Gnome automount.

Eredeath · 08-13-2008, 08:43 AM

Hey Seth556,
Note: USB device should be unplugged for this procedure.
I think you can make plug-and-play work using a program called hal. Try using the code as root in the console:

Code:

# /etc/rc.d/hal start

If it fails, you need to install hal, try a google search for it as i don't know how to do that in Fedora.
If you do have it you need to set permissions for yourself, so as root:

Code:

# gpasswd -a username optical
# gpasswd -a username storage
# gpasswd -a username hal
# /etc/rc.d/dbus restart
# /etc/rc.d/hal restart

replacing username with your username.
Now that you have that done as root you need to modify with your favorite editor /etc/rc.conf
scroll down to the Daemons section and add to it hal for example:

Code:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network !netfs !crond alsa hal)

You may need to reboot after this but try

Code:

# /etc/rc.d/hal start

first, and plug in your USB device.

Hope this helps

TB0ne · 08-13-2008, 12:18 PM

Good stuff. Thanks.