On 10/12/2010 1:38 PM, Doug wrote:
On 10/12/2010 3:29 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Terry Eck said the following on 10/12/2010 03:12 PM:
What do I have to install to read a vfat usb device. I had no problems under 11.1 but the newly installed 11.3 says it is not able to recognize the file system
I presume that the USB device is loading correctly.
If you run lsmod | grep fat what do you get?
If you look in /proc/filesystems is there mention of vfat?
I'm not sure this test means anything. I'm looking at PCLOS, which can definitely read files in the XP directories on the disk, via Dolphin, but in /proc/filesystems there is no mention of vfat or fat32, but there is ext2, ext3, and ext4. There is also a mention of usbfs, whatever that may be, altho it says nodev next to it. I don't see ntfs either. lsmod | grep fat yields nothing at all. (PCLOS is a distro using KDE 4.4.5, if it makes any difference.) I just plugged in a vfat usb stick, with a couple of Windows files on it, and the machine read the file names, again in Dolphin. (There are no text files on that stick.)
--doug
Unless you take steps to edit your fstab the normal way of mounting USB devices is via the user-space stuff built into the notifier. If you have a vfat hard disk that you frequently want to mount, put it in fstab with a proper entry ( auto or vfat for the type) and you can either mount it on demand (if user has rights) or automatically. But for USB devices, just let the system do it upon insertion. (Its taken 10 years to get it to be this easy, so don't try to out-think it.) -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org