Mounting second pendrive

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Topic: Mounting second pendrive
started by: JohnH

Posted by JohnH on Mar. 11 2006,16:03

I am using DSL 2.3 RC1 booted from pendrive

After I insert a second pendrive how do I access it?

What search keywords should be used to find the answer in a previous post?

Posted by doobit on Mar. 11 2006,17:38

If hotplug has detected it then you can mount it in /mnt. You can tell what has been mounted by running mount in a terminal without any other parameters.

Posted by safesys on Mar. 11 2006,18:47

I find using emelfm to be the easiest:

Navigate to /mnt in it, left click once on the relevant device/partition eg sdb1, click the right hand mouse button and click on "mount"

Emelfm will take a few seconds to show the new device if you plug it in while you're already viewing /mnt

Posted by JohnH on Mar. 12 2006,01:36

With the pen drive installed. I clicked through the mount tool and the second pen drive did not appear.
Going to Emelfm and naviigating to /mnt shows /sda1 the boot pen and sdb1 the second pen. I can click on it and Emelfm shows /mnt/sdb1 as an empty folder. I can mkdir and then try to copy a file to that directory and get a "no space left on device" message.

Posted by roberts on Mar. 12 2006,02:04

With emelfm you right click to get a submenu with the mount command.

Posted by brianw on Mar. 12 2006,02:08

on sdb1 did you right click an select mount? You need to do this before you can use that device.

Posted by safesys on Mar. 12 2006,14:23

Quote (JohnH @ Mar. 11 2006,20:36)

Sounds like you're double clicking (which opens) rather than single clicking (to select) on sdb1.

Left mouse button once to select the drive eg sdb1, right mouse button to open the contextual menu from which you can click "mount" to mount the drive which will then open it (eg /mnt/sdb1) and display its contents.

Posted by doobit on Mar. 15 2006,12:52

That is correct. sometimes I've found I have to do it a couple od times. Select with a right click and choose mount. Also, if you use toram as a bootcodewith a pen drive the pen drive is unmounted automatically after boot as long as you do not load any .uci extentions. That means you can pull it out andplug in another pen drive because the OS is running entirely in memory.