[NTLUG:Discuss] Mounting USB portable drive

[Peter A. Koren]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 00:29 -0700, Steve Baker wrote:
> Peter A. Koren wrote:
> 
> > I have a RHEL4 based distribution (Scientific Linux 4.0) and I want to
> > use a USB2 pen type drive that takes an SD memory card. I formatted the
> > card in a digital camera (a Canon Power Shot S2 IS). So I suppose that I
> > just have to insert the pen drive with the SD card in a USB2 slot, wait
> > for automount to mount it and then access the files -- JPEGs for the
> > pictures, AVIs for the movies and WAV files for the sound. Is that all
> > that there is to it?
> 
> Yep.
> 
> I have a 128Mb memory stick, a 20Gb USB hard drive, an Olympus still camera,
> a SONY movie camera and my son's MP3 player - they all use USB filesystems
> and I can plug any or all of them in - wait 10 seconds and look in
> the /media directory and there will be a directory for each one that's
> connected.
> 
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I inserted the SD card into the holder and plugged it in to a USB2 slot.
The mount point was created automatically as /media/CANON_DC. But ls
shows no files and du gives the same result (8) as my empty cdrecorder
-- just an empty device. I suppose I need some mount command with a
device file to associate with the /media/CANON_DC mount point. What is
the next step?

BTW, I have no idea what kind of file system the digital camera format
command created. The instructions were somewhat vague. There appear to
be two kinds of memory card formatting with this camera; Normal --
whatever that means and low level -- again, whatever that means. I used
"Normal".

-- Pete