[clug-talk] Flash drive problem

[Richard Carter]

Hi Hendrik,

Thanks for the tip.   I thought the space might be a problem so earlier I
tried to rename using konqueror but was successful.  Konqueror, in su mode,
returned "Could not rename file /media/USB DISK."

Robin

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Hendrik Schaink <hschaink at infovisi.com>wrote:

> Observation: "USB DISK" contains a space while "PATRIOT" does not. I
> would start with renaming the stick from "USB DISK" to "USB_DISK" so
> there are no spaces to be parsed by the mount command. Debian does have
>  some pickiness that you need to address.
>
> Further, could you issue the empty "mount" command (without quotes) uin
> Debian Lenny and publish it's output?
>
> HTH,  Hendrik
>
>
> Richard Carter wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I have 2 USB flash drives with details below:
> >
> > redcube:~# df -Th
> > Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda1     ext3    142G   46G   89G  34% /
> > tmpfs        tmpfs    976M     0  976M   0% /lib/init/rw
> > udev         tmpfs     10M  100K   10M   1% /dev
> > tmpfs        tmpfs    976M     0  976M   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/hdc   iso9660    3.1G  3.1G     0 100% /media/cdrom0
> > /dev/sda1     vfat    7.7G  8.0K  7.7G   1% /media/PATRIOT
> > /dev/sdb1     vfat     16G  461M   16G   3% /media/USB DISK
> >
> > Under kubuntu 9.04 both PATRIOT  and  USB DISK are mounted as read/write
> so
> > I am able to copy files to and from either one.  But under debian 5.0
> only
> > PATRIOT is mounted as read/write while USB DISK is mounted as write only
> so
> > I am unable to copy file to USB DISK.
> >
> > I suspect this has something to do with /etc/fstab on the system running
> > debian but I don't know what I should do so that both flash drives always
> > mount as read/write on that system.
> >
> > I realize that this is somewhat related to an earlier thread.  I'm sorry
> but
> > I'm a slow learner.
> >
> > Robin
>
>
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