cool, I'll give it a whirl<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Shein</b> <<a href="mailto:jason-xgs8i/e9EeWTtA8H5PvdGCwD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">jason-xgs8i/e9EeWTtA8H5PvdGCwD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On May 24, 2005 06:04 pm, <a href="mailto:billt-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org">billt-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</a> wrote:<br>> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:43:05PM -0400, Randy Jonasz wrote:<br>> > Hello everyone,<br>> ><br>> > A little while ago I bought a usb memory stick and have been using it
<br>> > with windows for travelling back and forth from school. Today I managed<br>> > to get gentoo linux to recognize the stick and allow me to mount it with<br>> ><br>> > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
<br>><br>> try<br>> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb<br>><br>> > One question I have is why the filenames are in 8.3 format in linux while<br>> > in windows I have extended names<br>><br><br>On my gentoo system I added this to /etc/fstab
<br><br>/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto noauto,user,rw,async,noatime,umask=0077 0 0<br><br>Works every time. USB stick of many different types, mp3 players, digital<br>cameras. Long filenames work too.<br><br><br>--<br>
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