Using a USB drive in Fedore 6

[terryfow]

I am trying to build a new box with Fedora 6 and the first thing that I want to do is get my USB Drive working so that I can transfer file between the to maching If anyone can provide detailed instruction on how to do this, I will for every in debt to you.

Thanks

PS: I can provided you with the system if need it.

[RJFUatHOME]

Are you talking about a USB HD or a USB Flash drive? If it's a USB HD make sure it's formated in fat32 and not NTFS. USB Flash drives should just automount as well as a USB HD if it's in a format that's recognized.

Supposedly there is NTFS support for USB HDs, but I've never played with it at all.

[stevea]

Why put FC6 on a new box ? At least F7 .

I would not use FAT on a transfer drive. The FAT (fat32, vfat) file system cannot correctly store Linux/Unix file permissions and you will be constantly f'ing with the transfer files.

ntfs w/r is supported via the linux ntfs-3g package. Alternatively, and preferably, you can install ext2ifs on Windows and then you can read/write ext2 & ext3 file systems in Windows.

It doesn't greatly matter if it's flash or rotating usb.

[terryfow]

Its a Flash Drive I guess I will have to reformat it?? The problem is the files are from a Core 1 machine and I want to transfer then to a newer version. I wasn expecting to have to reformat the flash drive.

[terryfow]

PS Can you walk me though what I will need to do if reformat the flash drive it and will work with Windows if I do??

Thanks

[stevea]

PS Can you walk me though what I will need to do if reformat the flash drive it and will work with Windows if I do??

Thanks


If the issue is a one-time transfer, between Linux systems then just store the files in a tar archive on the defalut taf32 file system and this will save & restore permissions.

To sale all the files in /my/directory to a comprressed tar archive
tar -czvf my.files.tgz ./my/directory

To extract the files to a /new/directoy just ...
cd /new/directory.
tar -xzvf my.files.tgz

You can copy the files to the usb flash. TYpically these will automount when yo uplug then in, or else go to the "Computer" folder and right-click/mount it. It should mount somewhere on /media.
cp my.flies.tgz /media/flash1
or whatever.

The files within the tgz archive will be extracted with same name owner and same permissions.

Sorry for the previous - I assumed you wanted a long-term best-practice solution, not a 'get it done quickly' sol'n.

[terryfow]

Part of the problem is that i have 2 computers, one with Core 1 and the Fedora 7.

I have copied all of the Evalouation file to the jump drive which was core 1 and now I would like to copy that to the fedora 6 machine.

I would to be able to use my flash drive in Linux and Windows but I dont how to get Fedoar5 computer to recognize the dirive. I had no problems with Core 1 after I set it up.

Did they change the Linux displays the drive, /ect/sda1..sda2..etc??

What command do I use to see if the computer can see the flash drive when i plug it in.




Thanks

[terryfow]

ps: I have upgrade to Fedora 7 too. per your advice....

[RJFUatHOME]

Take a look in /media you should see if it's mounted there.

[terryfow]

No, its not mounted there either. Isnt there some docs somewhere that tells whats needs to be done to get Fedora to read thumb drive?

[tjvanwyk]

Have you tried mounting it manually yet? That's what I usually do with portable storage media. Mount it, use it, then umount it (yes, it's umount - that's not a typo).

As far as seeing if Fedora "sees" it but it's not mounted, I use:

su -
fdisk -l

Important: That's 'l' as in "List".

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/mounting.html

[terryfow]

No luck on using Fdisk and seeing the device?? With Fedora 6 does the thumb need to format to NTFS or something else. This very one work great with Fedora Core 1 and still does. I dont have a clue why it not see it.

Thanks