Thanks, Chris, This would be really useful, except that e2label isn't available to me on the distribution of Debian from Samuel Thibault. I got someone to check the syslog and the usb stick is sda1. There is an application in there called usb-list, and it does list the USB stick. When I try to mount it, I get an error saying mounting failed, no such file or directory. Liz Liz Hare PhD Dog Genetics LLC doggene at earthlink.net http://www.doggenetics.com On 3/8/2011 2:09 PM, Christopher Brannon wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
