Thumb Drive (aka Flash Drive) [RESOVED]

rasat · 2003-08-26 19:18:10

Few questions about Thumb Drive:

1. How to format? It comes as FAT and I want to format to Ext3. I have mounted it as /mnt/usb (mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb). I tried "<b>mke2fs -j /mnt/usb</b>" but doesn't work.

2. How to mount at boot?

Toth · 2003-08-26 20:41:50

rasat wrote:

Few questions about Thumb Drive:
1. How to format? It comes as FAT and I want to format to Ext3. I have mounted it as /mnt/usb (mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb). I tried "<b>mke2fs -j /mnt/usb</b>" but doesn't work.

Use mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 (you must be root to do this)

2. How to mount at boot?

Add a line to your fstab such as:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ext3 defaults 0 0

As long as "noauto" is not specified in the options list, it'll be mounted at boot time.

rasat · 2003-08-27 03:43:21

Toth wrote:

2. How to mount at boot?
Add a line to your fstab such as:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ext3 defaults 0 0

Sorry my question was not clear. Earlier I tried this code but didn't work because fstab runs before rc.conf (and rc.local) loads the modules usb-storage and usb-ohci for usb thumb drive. Device /dev/sda1 doesn't yet exist when running fstab.

Toth · 2003-08-27 10:41:50

Ahh, ok. Well, you could add the mount command to your rc.local.

rasat · 2003-08-27 13:05:58

Toth wrote:

....add the mount command to your rc.local.

Thanks, I didn't thought about it.... always using fstab for mounting .

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#1 2003-08-26 19:18:10

Thumb Drive (aka Flash Drive) [RESOVED]

#2 2003-08-26 20:41:50

Re: Thumb Drive (aka Flash Drive) [RESOVED]

#3 2003-08-27 03:43:21

Re: Thumb Drive (aka Flash Drive) [RESOVED]

#4 2003-08-27 10:41:50

Re: Thumb Drive (aka Flash Drive) [RESOVED]

#5 2003-08-27 13:05:58

Re: Thumb Drive (aka Flash Drive) [RESOVED]

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