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Posted Aug 29, 2008 at 6:29:24 PM
Subject: NimbleX no longer mounts usb flash drive
When my harddrive unexpectedly failed I was able to use a copy of NimbleX on a live cd to copy it's contents to a 16 Gb Adata flash drive. A newly formatted and partitioned harddrive loaded with windows had to have my data files copied using windows because NimbleX will no longer mount the Adata flash drive. My other flash drives, a Sandisk 256 Mb and a 1 Gb, are mounted and continue to function without any problems. Does anyone have an answer why the Adata drive doesn't mount when NimbleX loads? How can this be fixed? Thanks in advance, Ray
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Shashank Sharma
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Posted: Sep 07, 2008 5:59:37 AM
Subject: NimbleX no longer mounts usb flash drive
When you plug in the adata drive, what does dmesg tell you? Do you have this drive added to the /etc/fstab file? Try to manually mount it.

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rayviv
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Posted: Sep 13, 2008 2:49:36 PM
Subject: NimbleX no longer mounts usb flash drive
Being a newbie I first had to find out what dmesg is and how to use it. It shows 6 usb busses with devices at 4,5, and 6. Until now I didn't realize my Iomega 250 Mb zip drive is also plugged into the hub with the Adata and Sandisk flashdrives. I don't know how you could tell one device from the other without viewing the contents. fstab shows only the Sandisk drive as sda1_removeable. Manually mounting seems to do nothing; if I'm using the correct commands. I tried "sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/" but it doesn't seem to work. Thanks, Ray
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Posted: Sep 13, 2008 3:55:08 PM
Subject: NimbleX no longer mounts usb flash drive
Alright, Ray, I didn't realize you needed stepwise instructions. Apologies. To mount the drive, first you need to create a mount point, that is create a directory within /mnt. You do that with this command: sudo mkdir /mnt/sda1 You can give this directory it any name you like, of course. Then you use this mount command: sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 Notice the difference? You just need to create a mount point (a directory) before you can mount the physical drive. You can similarly create directories in /mnt for all other flash drives and then mount them. Just use the right device name (sda1 or sda2 or sda 3 or whatever as reported by the dmesg command) and that's it. Cheers!

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