On 04 Feb, 05:39:44 PM, Pradnyesh Sawant wrote:

Hello, big brother google told to check /proc/partitions, but that shows only my HDD partitions, and doesn't show any information about the usb drive :(

google also says, add user to "plugdev" group. but i wonder that if /dev/sda? itself is absent, how is the above solution going to work?

also, i forgot to add the following in my previous mail:

~ $ lspci | grep -i usb 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)

~ $ lsmod | grep -i usb usbcore 113412 3 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd

Thanks again!

Hi,

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 17:39:44 +0530, Pradnyesh Sawant said:

[SNIP details of an ad-hoc usb mounting scheme]

Also, look at this:

Package: usbmount Description: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices This package automatically mounts USB mass storage devices (typically USB pens) when they are plugged in, and unmounts them when they are removed. The mountpoints (/media/usb[0-7] by default), filesystem types to consider, and mount options are configurable. When multiple devices are plugged in, the first available mountpoint is automatically selected. If the device provides a model name, a symbolic link /var/run/usbmount/MODELNAME pointing to the mountpoint is automatically created. . The script that does the (un)mounting is called by the udev daemon. Therefore, USBmount requires a 2.6 (or newer) kernel. . USBmount is intended as a lightweight solution which is independent of a desktop environment. Users which would like an icon to appear when an USB device is plugged in should use the pmount and hal packages instead.

manoj