Liz Hare <doggene at earthlink.net> writes: > Would it be possible to mount a USB device? How? Hi Liz, It is, but the problem is knowing the name of the device. On my box, /dev/sdb1 is usually the first partition of my external device. /dev/sda is my internal hard drive. It really gets problematic if you have connected multiple USB storage devices. You might be able to make this easier using filesystem labels, especially if your external device has an ext2 or ext3 filesystem. I don't know how to add a volume label to an MSDOS filesystem. Here's a fully-worked example of how labels work, based on my own setup. My external hard disk has three partitions. The first two aren't important. Partition 3 has all of my data. It's at /dev/sdb3 right now. I added a label to the filesystem, using e2label: e2label /dev/sdb3 cmb_external_hd You probably want to run that command with the filesystem unmounted. Now, any time I need to access that partition, I can do so using the pathname /dev/disk/by-label/cmb_hd_external. >From now on, I don't have to care about the physical device name. It could be /dev/sdb3, /dev/sdc3, or anything else. But it doesn't matter. The logical name /dev/disk/by-label/cmb_external_hd always refers to the 3rd partition on my external hard drive. So hopefully that whole discussion was beneficial, and it will simplify the process of working with USB devices. Assuming you've assigned a label of my_fs to a filesystem on your USB device, you should be able to do: mount /dev/disk/by-label/my_fs /mnt amixer > /mnt/amixer.txt sync umount /mnt Hope this helps. -- Chris
