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From: Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] two usb memory devices
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:04:33
Message-Id: 342e1090603241354q6d02d9bek4c2580768ae31d9c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] two usb memory devices by James
1 On 3/24/06, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > I have (2) usb memory devices that both work fine with hal/ivman/dbus:
5 >
6 > /dev/sdb1 500576 6464 494112 2% /media/usbdisk
7 >
8 > /dev/sda1 127716 3922 123794 4% /media/usbdisk
9 >
10 > since they both get 'automounted as /media/usbdisk, I cannot have them both
11 > active at the same time. I have to plug one in, perform operations, remove it
12 > and plug in the second device.....
13 >
14 > What do I do, so I can plug in both devices, simultaneously can copy
15 > directly from one usb memory stick to the second memory stick?
16 >
17 >
18 > James
19 >
20 >
21 >
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25 >
26
27 As root, create another directory, lets say "mkdir /mnt/usbdisk2" and
28 edit your /etc/fstab so /dev/sda1 gets mounted at the usbdisk2
29 directory. You can simply duplicate an already existing entry and edit
30 it, if you have none, you should learn how to do it...
31
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33 Daniel da Veiga
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[gentoo-user] Re: two usb memory devices James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: two usb memory devices James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>