[PLUG] Mounting USB drive

[Robbert van Andel]

Thanks.  Believe it or not, my windows machine crashed and I am facing a
reinstall, I want to take my old drive and move some files over to linux
using the USB connection (if possible).  I'm testing with another drive
that I used on my Windows machine to test it out.

I'm doing it the hard way now by taking another hard drive making it
master, reinstalling windows on it and then taking the data of my
original master drive (which I've made slave) because it'll take less
time than figuring out th USB or IEEE 1394 mounting issue.  It's
interesting that there is very little documentation on the 'net about
mounting a usb drive.  When I have some more time, I will try to figure
it out.  Perhaps I will have better luck with the IEEE 1394 card I have
on my other computer.

Robbert

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 22:14, Steven Raymond wrote:
> > Thanks for the help. I do want to preserve the data on the disk.  Is
> > there anyway to do this without losing the data on the drive.  I can
> > mount a dos floppy disk, so that shouldn't be an issue.
> >
> 
> Then try just this part:
> mkdir /mnt/usbhd
> mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd/
> 
> See what that does for you.  The auto should (assuming your kernel can
> read it) mount the drive automagically.  If it doesn't, then my guess is
> that the kernel needs that filesystem support loaded in.  The file system
> has nothing to do with usb drivers; usb doesn't much care about
> filesystems.  It all depends on whether your kernel has the right smarts
> to read whatever the drive formatted as.  Save yourself the trouble of
> guessing and check the drive on your windows machine; I can't recall how
> but it should be very easy to determine under file explorer (right-click
> and properties I think).
> 
> Someone here with more knowledge than I can tell you how to determine what
> filesystem support your kernel already has.
> 
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Robbert van Andel <robbert at vafam.com>
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