Re: usb storage problems [somewhat solved]

[Theo Schmidt <tschmidt@mus.ch>]

Am Montag, 19. September 2005 15.41 schrieb Serge Koganovitsch:
> If you're using pmount you don't need to touch the /etc/fstab file.
> pmount does have an unmounting option: 'pumount' but this is automatically
> by KDE.

Super, that's the missing puzzle piece!

So here is a micro-howto on USB storage devices, using some of everybody's 
suggestions:

1) See if pmount is available and install it if it isn't. Become root and type 
adduser <your_user_name> plugdev
2) Check /etc/fstab for the line
none   /sys   sysfs   defaults   0 0
Add this (as root) if not there. Make sure there is a carriage return (empty 
line) at the end of /etc/fstab. If you have sysfsutils installed you don't 
need this line.
3) Plug in device.
4) Type the command pmount /dev/sda1 or pmount -d /dev/sda1
5) Open /media/sda1 in Konqueror. An icon for this will be in the KDE applet 
"devices" or on the desktop if you have set up KDE this way.
6) If this doesn't work, try pmount /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, etc.
7) If this doesn't work, start QTparted, which will show all partitions and 
their exact names.
8) Before removing the device, type pumount /dev/sda1 or pumount /media/sda1 
(use the correct partition if it isn't sda1)

For the above to work properly, you may need a kernel newer than 2.6.11

If you can install udev and hal, the above may work automatically, not 
requiring pmount.


Good sumup?

Theo Schmidt