[CentOS] mnt usb hard drive

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Tue Aug 30 19:13:14 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 20:05 +0100, Filianx wrote:
> Thanks Jim,
>  
> it doesn't show up anywhere...Fedora 4 picks it up ok though..which
> isn't really the machine I want it on.
> 
Do you have anything in when using the command:

dmesg

after plugging in the drive?

How about the command:

lsusb


It might only work with the centosplus kernel:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/

(The CentOS plus kernel has items turned on that the upstream provider
turned off in their enterprise kernel ... but which are on in the FC
kernels)

>  
> On 30/08/05, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: 
>         On 8/30/05, Filianx <filianx at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > Hi all, 
>         >
>         >  can anyone tell me how to mount my usb hdd, all other usb
>         peripherals get
>         > picked up ok
>         
>         For most external USB storage devices, they should be detected
>         automatically and show up in /media on centos 4. cd to media
>         and see 
>         if the usb hdd is in there. Even if it still is in there, you
>         may need
>         to mount it. You can do this by mount /media/name_here   Don't
>         forget
>         to unmount when you're done.
>         
>         >
>         >  cheers in advance
>         
>         to you also. hope this works.
>         
>         
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> 
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