mounting a usb thumb drive

[Jerry McBride]

On Saturday 11 December 2004 06:21 am, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> >> I now could mount /dev/sdb inside SUSE. BUt according to the manual of
> >> my USB Disk Pro, it has 2 partitions. Mounting /dev/sdb will only see
> >> the floppy partition, but not the harddisk partition. How could I find
> >> the harddisk partition?
> >
> > If the partitions look reasonable, then it is probably a hard disk. Be
> > aware that this command may try to list a partition table when there
> > isn't one. In that case, the table will be nonsense, and the device is
> > probably a floppy.
>
> I am afraid my USB Disk Pro is a different kind of beast.
>
> Under Win2k, it mounted its harddisk partition and I saw 128M of disk
> space.
>
> Under Linux, however, mount /dev/sdb gave me the floppy drive, which is
> readonly.
>
> I need to force LInux to mount the harddisk partition in /dev/sdb.
>
> Is there other way of mounting a USB disk?

Yup, plug it in and read the messages that the USB drivers put there and mount 
the correct drive...
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