Using USB Thumb Drives on SuSE SLES 10 SP1 & RHEL 5
David Woodsmall1/26/2017 - Optimized for Firefox 50.1.0
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Insert the USB Thumb Drive (Flash Drive). In this case,
it is a 4GB (FAT) U3 SanDisk Micro Cruzar Thumb Drive.
The main directory on this drive, wherein I place all
my work, is the "\#" directory (folder).
[1:] SLES10SP1:/dev # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20416757760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2482 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1026 8241313+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1027 1221 1566337+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 * 1222 2482 10128982+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sda: 4103 MB, 4103938560 bytes
128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 993 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 992 3999649 b W95 FAT32 <= ~4GB USB Thumb Drive
(USB Flash Drive)
[2:] SLES10SP1:/dev # cd /mnt
[3:] SLES10SP1:/mnt # ls
[4:] SLES10SP1:/mnt # mkdir usb
[5:] SLES10SP1:/mnt # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
Proof its mounted and available:
SLES10SP1:/mnt # cd usb
SLES10SP1:/mnt/usb # ls
# Documents LaunchU3.exe System bootex.log
While the above technique works on RHEL 5, the USB Flash Drive is mounted
automatically, so just use FILE BROWSER.