How to mount a Flash Disk...

[xiao guang]

Hi all,
I just bought a flash disk n try to use it in the Linux OS..
How am i going to get the data from my flask disk..??
what are the steps i needed..??
Thanks in advance,
xiao guang

[mart_man00]

if its usb its under /dev/sda1

[xiao guang]

Hi all,
Can someone tell me the required steps to access the file in the flask disk ..??
Thanks in advance,
xiao guang

[mart_man00]

mkdir /mnt/usb
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
cd /mnt/usb
ls

[frenchfry164]

Try this, if it doesn't work, you need to find which device controls your flash drive.

1. Create a directory in /mnt to hold the drive. Something like /mnt/flash
2. Open up a virtual terminal and type in: "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash"

If it says that the device doesn't exist, isn't present, not functioning, spontaenously combusted, etc. etc. etc. than /dev/sda1 isn't you flash device, or you don't have flash drive support in your kernel. If successful, than it was successful.

[xiao guang]

Thanks for the help!!
I managed to acces my file in the flask disk...

[FloatingPoint]

If I might ask, what brand are you using?

I'm too thinking of getting one but not quite of the driver support under Linux.

[mart_man00]

it counts as a usb file system, they all should work. tigerdirect has some nice ones, works for me.