[NTLUG:Discuss] Mounting USB portable drive

[Peter A. Koren]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 18:01 -0700, Steve Baker wrote:
> John Thomas wrote:
> > Has anyone had experience with mounting a USB portable drive to Linux?
> 
> Yep - I do it every day.
> 
> > This is a Western Digital 40 gig device.  Is it handled the same way as 
> > a USB memory stick?
> 
> Yes - exactly the same way.
> 
> I just plug mine in (on SuSE 9.1 or so) and wait a few seconds - then
> it's generally just magically mounted under /media/usb-storage-XXXXX
> where XXXXX seems to depend on the device.
> 
> > The OS is Red Hat Workstation 3
> 
> There is a lot of black magic going on behind the scenes with USB
> automounting - I don't know how RH sets their stuff up.

I have a RHEL4 based distribution (Scientific Linux 4.0) and I want to
use a USB2 pen type drive that takes an SD memory card. I formatted the
card in a digital camera (a Canon Power Shot S2 IS). So I suppose that I
just have to insert the pen drive with the SD card in a USB2 slot, wait
for automount to mount it and then access the files -- JPEGs for the
pictures, AVIs for the movies and WAV files for the sound. Is that all
that there is to it?

-- Pete