What are using for the mount command? A typical mount command should look like this: mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt Where /mnt is your mount point; I assume that exists on your install session. I say '-t auto' in case we don't know what kind of file system is on that USB stick. That should work but I have had 'auto' cause a miss-interpretation of the file system before. If you know for a fact that it is a FAT style system, you could ue vfat so then the command would look like: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt Hope this extra info helps. On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 03:19:41PM -0600, Liz Hare wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
