Bought myself a stick which is recognised by “Hardware Information” but is not set up in fstab. Am not sure how to enter into fstab. Would appreciate help.>:)
johmidl wrote:
> Bought myself a stick which is recognised by “Hardware Information” but
> is not set up in fstab. Am not sure how to enter into fstab. Would
> appreciate help.>:)
Fire up an xterm or konsole or whatever, and su - to root.
Now insert the thumbstick in an USB port and look at the last lines of
/var/log/messages with ‘tail’.
E.g.
#tail -30 /var/log/messages
Jan 18 11:25:37 ferrets4me kernel: usb 3-1.3: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
Jan 18 11:25:37 ferrets4me kernel: usb 3-1.3: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
Jan 18 11:25:37 ferrets4me kernel: usb 3-1.3: new device found, idVendor=126f, idProduct=0163
Jan 18 11:25:37 ferrets4me kernel: usb 3-1.3: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jan 18 11:25:37 ferrets4me kernel: usb 3-1.3: Product: Mobile Disk
Jan 18 11:25:37 ferrets4me kernel: usb 3-1.3: Manufacturer: USB2.0
Jan 18 11:25:37 ferrets4me kernel: usb 3-1.3: SerialNumber: 2c14f8d58c4004
Jan 18 11:25:37 ferrets4me kernel: usb 3-1.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan 18 11:25:37 ferrets4me kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 18 11:25:37 ferrets4me kernel: usb-storage: device found at 5
Jan 18 11:25:37 ferrets4me kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB2.0 Mobile Disk 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] 3948543 512-byte hardware sectors (2022 MB)
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] 3948543 512-byte hardware sectors (2022 MB)
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: sdg: sdg1 sdg2 /* <<-- here you find the device names. */
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
Jan 18 11:25:38 ferrets4me kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
Then you know which device names to use in fstab.
Now use a text editor to add a line to fstab, e.g.:
/dev/sdg1 /mnt/usbdos vfat user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/sdg2 /mnt/usblinux ext3 user,noatime,noauto 0 0
(I have two partitions, one for vfat, one for ext3)
Of course mkdir the mount points before you try to mount, e.g.
#mkdir /mnt/usbdos
Then:
#mount /mnt/usbdos/
#mount
…]
/dev/sdg1 on /mnt/usbdos type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev)
Thankyou, from the bottom of my heart! 
Under the Desktop KDE automatically mounts USB storage, presumably GNOME can do the same. That many temporary needs frequently.
If you do use FSTAB, then it can be neat to use Volume Labels
LABEL=DATA /media/windata vfat noauto,rw,user 0 0
Then you don’t have to worry about device names, and can use more meaningful mount points, depending on contents, if you have multiple USB and flash cards.