glenux
13-11-2004 20:16:08
Just installed FC3 the other day.
I installed udev as well, but now I don't know how to mount usb drive like I used to.
I issue mount command
#mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1
I get a message mount special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
I try to fdisk
#fdisk /dev/sda
and I get Unable to open /dev/sda.
I tried sda, sdb, sdc. Nada.
GlennB
Colleen
13-11-2004 22:08:53
Just a random guess out of nowhere - maybe you need to use devfs style device names?
glenux
14-11-2004 19:37:31
I thought that the line below was using the devfs style.
#mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1
Can you give me an example, Colleen?
?
Colleen
14-11-2004 19:54:40
devfs device names are of the form:
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1
/dev/sda1 is the older way of doing things (but I like it and still use it on my machines, hehe). I don't use Fedora, nor do I have any USB drives, so I could be completely off-base here. It just occurred to me that that might be a reason for the device /dev/sda1 not to exist, so it might be worth checking (or might not be ;-P).
glenux
14-11-2004 22:59:49
I just now started reading some of the issues concerning using udev vs devfs.
This is not just a Fedora Core thing. It is in Gentoo and some other distributions as well. devfs is being depricated; it is no longer being supported in the newer kernels.
I read one account about a person last year got fed up with using udev and just uninstalled it and went back to devfs. I will do this if I can't get the udev thing to work.
I do like a challenge but maybe I am just making this too hard.
Despite
15-11-2004 09:00:07
you've probably already seen it, but just in case:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/
specifically note that there's already an update for udev on FC3. also note the section toward the end under "But I Really Want My Device Node!"
Cybodog
08-12-2004 05:44:09