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adssse

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Posted: May 10 2005,14:11

I know this has been covered. But I have seen multiple ways to do this.

I have been doing it as follows:
sudo mount /dev/sda
&
sudo umount /dev/sda

The problem that I am having is that it mounts fine the first time, but I cannot get it to mount again unless I reboot. I was wondering if I am doing this incorrectly and this is causing the problem. If someone could tell me the proper way of mounting a pen drive I would greatly appreciate it.

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Posted: May 10 2005,14:42

This is possibly because when you are forcing it to mount the disk as root, it changes the permissions of the mount point for some reason.

Just mount and unmount stuff as dsl.

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adssse

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Posted: May 10 2005,19:54

ok I will try that, but I have also seen some people say that it should be done like this:

mount /dev/sda /mnt/sda
umount /mnt/sda

I was wondering which is the correct way to do this?

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Posted: May 10 2005,19:59

I just do this

mount /dev/sdaX

umount /mnt/sdaX

since the device and mountpoint are defined in fstab, it will work properly for you.

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