[Wylug-help] usb pendrives

[Jim Jackson]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Lee Evans wrote:

> Hi roger,
>
> couple of simple questions - is it USB Mass storage? and are you using
> Udev?
>
> i have the following in my /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/usb/memstick1   /mnt/usb    vfat    noauto,users   0 0

I'd add the noatime option after noauto too, and use the user, not users,
option.

The user option allows users to be able to mount and unmount
the device and have read/write access.

You cannot unmount a device when some process is accessing it. So close
all programs/gui's that were access the keydisk - or do something in the
logout stuff to shut everything down.

I don't use automounting, and have installed xvmount suitably configured,
such that it's fairly easy to mount and unmount
floppies/cdrom/usb-masstorage stuff by my S.O.

I only have one USB device, so find the naming very predictable. I'm sure
I could hack something into the hotplug stuff and use softlinks in /dev
to hot-wire a solution - but as people say it's an area that has needed
looking at from a regular user's usability viewpoint.


> where /dev/usb/memstick1 is created by udev according to
> my /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules as follows:
>
> BUS="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}="07a0", SYSFS{idVendor}="05e3" KERNEL="sd*"
> NAME="usb/memstick%n
>
> i got the above information from udevinfo - see the following link for
> more info
>
> http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php#
>
> if youre not using udev, it should simply be a scsi drive - so replace
> my memstick stuff with /dev/sdX or whatever - which is easily
> identifiable if you do 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'
>
> i dont have automounting - but then i have no desire to, so i cant
> really help on that front - sorry :)
>
> hope that helps
>
> lee
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 20:19 +0000, Roger Greenwood wrote:
> > Am I the only one struggling with this :-
> >
> > Using SuSE 9.1 and 9.2 (on 2 different machines) I have the same problem, usb
> > pendrive (flashdisk) will not auto mount. Can be mounted by root only, cannot
> > change permissions, ordinary users cannot have write access.
> >
> > SuSE help is not helping. Good pointers anyone?
> >
> > I thought this would be so easy by now . . . .
> >
> > Roger Greenwood.
> >
> >
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