Re: USB Pen Drives and Linux

From: Jim Richardson (warlock_at_eskimo.com)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:11:01 -0800

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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:34:50 -0500,
 paul <pcsanwaldNOSPAM@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 23 Feb 2004 19:46:30 GMT, Dances With Crows
><danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@usa.net> wrote:
>>
>>FAT doesn't, though there is a space in the FAT superblock for a volume
>>label. Most USB storage devices are shipped with FAT filesystems
>>because that's the lowest common denominator; every machine can read and
>>write FAT. Tools for reading and writing ext[23], JFS, XFS, and
>>ReiserFS are limited/unavailable on non-Linux systems. If the OP is
>>only going to be using his USB devices on Linux systems, using ext2 and
>>-L with mount may work. If not, he'll have to find another solution.
>>
>
> I think I'm going to have to find another solution, unfortunately. The
> pen drives I'll be using are pretty much random, and most of them (as
> you pointed out) will come with a FAT filesystem.
>
> all I'm really looking to do is mount a pen drive from /dev/sda1, then
> umount it and be able to mount a different pen drive from the same
> device label (/dev/sda1).
>
> I take it there is no quick and dirty way to do this?
>
> --paul

I am not sure I follow the problem. I have 3 USB mem devices, a
cardreader, a digicam that shows up as a usb storage device, and a
pendrive. If I plug them in one at a time, they are all registered as
/dev/sda, if I plug more than one in at a time, the second one, is
/dev/sdb, I haven't plugged in all three at once (only have 2 usb ports
here :)

Are you saying that the device number (sda, sdb) increments for each
time one of them is plugged in? that's odd. I'd say that something is
wonky with your usb config, unless I am misunderstanding something.

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