I am running CentOS 4.7. I have a USB flash (thumb) drive that has a bunch of files placed there by Windows. I plugged it into the CentOS machine, and when I listed the files under "/media/usb-name", there was nothing there.
I created an empty file: touch blah
and it showed up when I did list it.
I noticed, checking dmesg that it was attached to /dev/sdb.
So I did a quick fdisk /dev/sdb I saw that it had a partition of type of W95 FAT16 under /dev/sdb1.
How come I'm not able to see files placed on that device by XP/Vista machines when I plug it into the CentOS 4.7 machine, but I'm able to create a file on it, and list it? I did double-check and plugged that drive into my XP workstation and sure enough I was able to see all the files. === Al
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:10 -0700, Al Sparks wrote:
How come I'm not able to see files placed on that device by XP/Vista machines when I plug it into the CentOS 4.7 machine, but I'm able to create a file on it, and list it? I did double-check and plugged that drive into my XP workstation and sure enough I was able to see all the files.
Because you didn't mount it.
That worked. Thanks. === Al
----- Original Message ---- From: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 7:28:16 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] USB Thumb Drive Confusion
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:10 -0700, Al Sparks wrote:
How come I'm not able to see files placed on that device by XP/Vista machines when I plug it into the CentOS 4.7 machine, but I'm able to create a file on it, and list it? I did double-check and plugged that drive into my XP workstation and sure enough I was able to see all the files.
Because you didn't mount it.
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