mounting a usb thumb drive

[Roger Oberholtzer]

And remember that they can be either floppies or partitioned hard disks.
So, if it finds the disk but complains that the partition table is bad,
then mount the whole device, not a partition, as it is probably
formatted as a floppy.

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 02:33, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Man-wai Chang wrote:
> 
> > I bought a cheap usb thumb drive and would like to try using it under 
> > my linux-2.4.28.
> >
> > any guide on this?
> >
> 
> Try, as root, in a terminal:
> 
> tail -f /var/log/messages
> 
> Then plug in the drive to see what device it shows up as.
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