Did you try When reading your messages file, did it give you a dev location? It does seem like it automounted. Did you try just copying anything to /mnt/diskonkey ? That is where you would copy things. You might want to look at permissions on the "directory" first, it may just be owned by root. Rik On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:59, Robert L. Cochran wrote: > I recently bought an M-Systems 128 Mb Disk-On-Key (version 2.51). When I > plug this into the USB port of a Linux computer that has never been used > with this device before, it seems to create a directory > '/mnt/diskonkey'. The directory never existed before. It disappears when > you unmount and then unplug the disk key. > > looking at /var/log/messages shows the disk key being registered as a > USB mass storage device. But there is nothing about it creating > directories on my system. > > How can this be done? Users other than root can't create files on /mnt. > How did my disk key suddenly get root access? > > By the way, the disk key works great. I currently have the > kernel-source-2.4.18-17.8.0 rpm on it It's nice to be able to hot plug a > disk into a machine and copy over needed files. I just wish I could boot > off one of these. > > Thanks > > Bob Cochran > Greenbelt, Maryland, USA > > > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
