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HighD

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From: Costa Rica

Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 31

How do I mount usbs and other partitions?

I have 2 other partitions, containing winxp and documents, one is ntfs, the other one fat32, how do I mount these partitions? How do I automount usb flash drives? I'm already part of the storage group. By the way...Im part of the audio, wheel, and storage group, what other groups exist? Is there anywhere I can get a detailed explanation?

Thanks for your answers

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pjeremy

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 66

Re: How do I mount usbs and other partitions?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Groups
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wri … ormal_user
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AutoFS_HowTo
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syme

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 21

Re: How do I mount usbs and other partitions?

as far as mounting flashdrives goes firstly you will need a place to mount them like /mnt/flash or something so if you need to go ahead and

mkdir /mnt/flash

then it is usually as easy as typing

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash

which mounts sda1 (your flashdrive, unless you have serial ATA hard drives in which case just try sdb1 or sdc1 instead of sda1 and so on) to /mnt/flash
if you want it to automount you will need to edit your /etc/fstab and the above wiki should tell you all you need to know.

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davin

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-05-01

Posts: 25

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Re: How do I mount usbs and other partitions?

For auto mount modify your /etc/fstab file. You can enter partitions which you want mount every time arch boots.

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