Comments on: Quick USB stick mounting tip for SUSE Linux

By: S Chacko

S Chacko — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:43:15 +0000

Hi friends,

I find that there are lots of intelligent ppl in here!! I actually enjoyed browsing thru the various msgs in here. I too am looking for some help. I have just loaded open suse 11.2 and have been desperately trying to use the CDMA 1x USb Stick (called Photon) of TATA Indicom for connecting to the Internet. Unfortunately there does not seem to be any help available. Is there anyone around who can render some help?

By: Larry Steele

Larry Steele — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:19:47 +0000

I’m still using SuSE 9.1, and I do not see anything in /proc/partitions? Just the harddrive partitions. Is 9.1 too old?

By: Mike Cresswell

Mike Cresswell — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:45:42 +0000

Thanks Scott. Very Helpful.

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By: gherardo

gherardo — Sat, 26 May 2007 12:29:31 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I was baffled seeing on suse 10 sles desktop the icon for the usb stick , but not being permitted to open it or to mount it.

By: gavin

gavin — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:13:20 +0000

I have just been experimenting with this on suse 10.1 on a laptop using a usb memory stick. Whether or not it is automounted depends on your window manager/desktop. With gnome and kde an icon appears on your desktop and a dialogue prompts what operation to do with the new device – even with no entry for it in fstab. However, this is an old laptop and I run icewm due to lack of ram and cpu. Icewm doesn’t automount and certainly has no desktop icons. In that case, I have to manually mount, which is made easier by the right fstab entry.
Gavin

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By: paul

paul — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:23:30 +0000

Great advice!!!
It worked just like it should, thanks a lot man for saving me from frustration!

By: Attila

Attila — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:32:10 +0000

I`ve just installed SUSE 10.0 but it does not automount and does not create link on the desktop.

By: Ozzy

Ozzy — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:39:56 +0000

That helped a lot. I am using SUSE SLES 10 servers with just command line option on all over our servers and I was looking for a solution to mount USB drives easly.

Thank you!

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By: Gestahl

Gestahl — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:21:08 +0000

By default, SUSE does it as well (automounting all the stuff, creating links to desktop, asking whether you want the play the audio-CD you just inserted in amarok etc.).
However, when you create an entry in /etc/fstab, e.g. for a cd-rom drive or an USB-stick, it won’t be automounted any longer. At least that’s what I observed after creating entries in /etc/fstab for my cd-rom drives to get cedega correctly working.

By: Christer

Christer — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:47:30 +0000

That must have been something I forgot on my previous list of awesome things about Ubuntu. In gnome I’ve never had to manually mount anything. USB flash drive, multiple digital cameras, etc.. plug in, auto-mounted & creates a link on the desktop. done. Actually, with the camera, it asks me if I want to import the photos as well.

I still think you should give it a try

By: Hans Fugal

Hans Fugal — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:05:36 +0000

There’s always automounting, and/or using udev to create a symlink based on which usb device it is (camera, pen drive, whatever) so you can have specific mountpoints in /etc/fstab.