Re: [gentoo-user] usb - sandisk memory needs FAT or NTFS

[Rumen Yotov]

On (22/01/06 04:48), James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Well I have 2 different usb memory devices and I cannot
> seem to get a fat (or ntfs) file system on them.
>
> I have to manually mount them with this command as coldplug
> does not do it automatically. I have to use:
> 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb'
> Then I can use 'cp' to copy files onto the usb mem device but
> windows can only see the name, not copy files off of the usb
> mem device.
>
> Here's the fstab entries I have tried:
>
> none     /proc/bus/usb  usbfs           defaults       0 0
> #/dev/sda1   /mnt/usb    auto        noauto,user,sync  0 0
> /dev/sda1    /mnt/usb    auto        noauto,user       0 0
>
> I need to copy a microsoft (.exe) file from a gentoo (archive)
> to a usb (1.0) memory device so it can be moved to a
> windows pc. I want my gentoo system to auto-sense the usb memory
> device including the file system type and make it so I can use
> cp and other linux programs to copy files over to the windoz
> file system on the usb memory sticks. If I have to I can use
> 'mcopy' or other such program on the gentoo system to put
> windows files onto the usb mem device, when it is plugged
> into the gentoo system.
>
> Any good wiki's or docs?  I've tried to follow several web pages but
> most are old and none show how to have the fat (ntfs) file
> system automounted upon insertion of the usb sandisk device,
> which comes from a windows 2000 user, into a gentoo system.
>
> ideas?
>
>
> James
>
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Hi,
Tranfering data Linux<->Windows through USB-stick works for me.
First i've put FAT32 filesystem on USB, using some HP 'win' program.
Windows reads/writes the data w/o problems.
Linux automounts the stick (with 'vfat' fs) using dbus-hal-ivman trio.
Don't have any settings (for USB) in my /etc/fstab.
PS: don't forget to eject the Media before taking it out, both Lin&Win.
HTH.Rumen