connect 3d 512MB memory stick

[Randy Jonasz]

cool, I'll give it a whirl

On 5/24/05, Jason Shein <jason-xgs8i/e9EeWTtA8H5PvdGCwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> On May 24, 2005 06:04 pm, billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:43:05PM -0400, Randy Jonasz wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > A little while ago I bought a usb memory stick and have been using it
> > > with windows for travelling back and forth from school. Today I 
> managed
> > > to get gentoo linux to recognize the stick and allow me to mount it 
> with
> > >
> > > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
> >
> > try
> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
> >
> > > One question I have is why the filenames are in 8.3 format in linux 
> while
> > > in windows I have extended names
> >
> 
> On my gentoo system I added this to /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto noauto,user,rw,async,noatime,umask=0077 0 0
> 
> Works every time. USB stick of many different types, mp3 players, digital
> cameras. Long filenames work too.
> 
> 
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