[iamroot]

How can i use my usb thumb drives and mp3 players with linux? I'm using red hat btw.

[Dapper Dan]

This is the best "how to" I've found.

[iamroot]

I tried out what the how-to said but wehni tried to mount my usb-drive, and error msg appears telling me that there r too many mounted filesystems or somthing liddat.

[Dapper Dan]

Did everything go accordingly up to that point?

Did you go:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick

before trying to mount it with..

mount /mnt/usbstick

?



I added this to my .bash_profile which is in the home directory..


#!/bin/bash

/sbin/modprobe usb-storage
mount /mnt/usbstick

That way it mounts every time I reboot. If it's not there, it doesn't matter.

[iamroot]

When i enter mount/dev/sda1/mnt/usbstick i get "no such directory"

[danleff]

Did you do;

cd /mnt
mkdir /usbstick

...first?

Then issue the command mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick.

Remember, there is a space between mount and /dev/sda1, as well as sda1 and /mnt/usbstick.

This also has to be done as root user.