Hey. the best way to see where some hardware is mounted is to plug it in, and run "dmesg". the kernel will tell you which devnode it selected to represent the usb drive.. it will tell you /dev/<devname>. from there, just mount as you usually would using the mount command. also, you could try editing the udev rules so it always uses a specific configuration when mounting the usb drive. just out of curiosity, how did u get the usb drive to correspond to a devnode that YOU created?
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Howard Sanner < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > With a lot of help from you folks, I got USB working by creating > /dev/sda1 using mknod: > > mknod /dev/sda1 b 10 1 > > Worked like a charm. > > However, from time to time /dev/sda1 disappears without my > deleting it. It seems to be random; I can't figure out a cause. > It has happened three times that I remember, most recently tonight. > > Up till tonight, I could always su root and re-create it using > mknod as above. However, tonight when I got the response > "/dev/sda1 does not exist," after I re-created it using mknod I > then got the error message "mount: /dev/sda1: unknown device." > > /dev/sda1 is still in /etc/fstab, and the mount point /mnt/usb > still exists. /etc/fstab has not changed at all since the last > time I successfully used USB. > > Does anybody know what's going on? I really need to be able to use > USB. Having occasionally to re-create /dev/sda1 is a pain, but > something I can live with as long as the result is accessible. > > Thanks. > > Howard Sanner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Neil Sikka
