Comments on: Howto: Mount a USB device in SuSE Linux

By: J Rifkin

J Rifkin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:52:06 +0000

This didn’t quite work for me. My /var/log/messages file gave

/dev/sds

as the address, then when I tried to mount it I got the following error,

> mount /dev/sds1 /mnt
mount: /dev/sds1 already mounted or /mnt busy

It turns out that the partition was really mounted on /dev/dm-14. I learned that I unplugged the drive (without having mounted it), and found the following two lines in my /var/log/messages file

…. multipathd: dm-14: remove map (uevent)
…. multipathd: dm-13: remove map (uevent)

When I re-connected the USB drive, I was able to mount it with

> mount /dev/dm-14 /mnt

By: xrayspex

xrayspex — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:28 +0000

well, i hate to be a bitch but problems like mounting a flash drive simply do not appear in Windows. otherwise i agree with gordon. i love linux, but certainly not for the way it handles my usb key.

By: Gordon Hilliard

Gordon Hilliard — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:06:08 +0000

Hi Julie,

thanks for that, don’t you just love Linux? Someone has usually solved the problem for you.

Best Regards

Gordon

By: Leroy Glinchy

Leroy Glinchy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:25:32 +0000

You can also put the lines into /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,rw 0 0

Then you can do:

mount /usb

instead of the long line like above.

You can get rid of the modprobe line by doing this:

Edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel and make sure

INITRD_MODULES=”usb-storage OTHER MODULES”

Note, OTHER MODULES means that there are going to be other modules, you don’t ever actually type OTHER MODULES there.