Re: Using USB Memory-Stick with Debian

[Tony Godshall <togo@of.net>]

According to Felix Karpfen,
> With the help of Google, I have located the following instructions
> for configuring Debian to recognise the presence of a USB Memory-Stick:
> 
> 
> ,----[ memory_stick.txt ]-
> | USB memory stick 
> | 
> |   * plug in Memory-Stick
> |   * become root (su -)
> |   * modprobe usb-storage
> |   * in /etc/fstab: directly after the line with "proc  /proc ..."
> |     add a line like this:
> |     usbdevfs   /proc/bus/usb   usbdevfs noauto,user   0 0
> |   * now root may mount the memory stick:  mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> |     and read/write on /mnt
> |   * in /etc/fstab enter a line as follows:
> |     /dev/sda1  /usbstick       auto    user,noauto    0 0
> |   * mkdir /usbstick
> |   * in /etc/modules add:
> |     # For USB memory stick
> |     usb-storage
> |   * Now every user may mount and umount /usbstick
> `--

These instructions are quite brittle since depending on your
system config the stick may not come in as sdb, sdc, etc.
For a more robust approach, I recommend reading the udev HOWTO.