Not quite sure why; it’s recognized under lsusb but don’t know what to do from there. It’s not getting automatically recognized though.
If anyone can help me make my computer recognize it, then it would be a huge help.
Note I am running OpenSuse 11.0 with GNOME, and the drive has portableapps suite on it (but not U3), and it works on windows machines (not sure about other linux machines).
With your usb drive plugged in, provide the output here of:
cat /etc/fstab
df -h
su -c ‘fdisk -l’
greg@linux-2s33:~> lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0029 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Optical
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 08ca:0010 Aiptek International, Inc. Tablet
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 007: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 1/4GB Flash Drive
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 413c:2010 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 413c:1003 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 045e:0710 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 041e:4038 Creative Technology, Ltd ORITE CCD Webcam(PC370R)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
greg@linux-2s33:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1200JD-75WD-WMAET1473271-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1200JD-75WD-WMAET1473271-part6 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1200JD-75WD-WMAET1473271-part7 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD4000AAKS-_WD-WCASY0038992-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
greg@linux-2s33:~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb6 20G 5.9G 13G 32% /
udev 1.5G 392K 1.5G 1% /dev
/dev/sdb7 89G 28G 57G 34% /home
gvfs-fuse-daemon 20G 5.9G 13G 32% /home/greg/.gvfs
df: `/root/.gvfs’: Permission denied
greg@linux-2s33:~> su -c ‘fdisk -l’
Password:
Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdee1f7ad
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 48642 390715841 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9dc96e9e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sdb2 7 14589 117137947+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 7 268 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 269 2879 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 2880 14589 94060543+ 83 Linux
greg@linux-2s33:~>
OK, I feel really stupid. I do a system reboot for an unrelated thing, and there it is.
Thanks for the help guys 
Glad to read its working.
Your usb drive was not showing up in what you provided. There was a kernel update in the past couple of days, and it is possible after the kernel update, you could lose access, until after a reboot (speculation on my part).