Help understanding mounting usb

[Jimmie Houchin]

ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 22:42 -0500, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
[snip original message]
> 
> I really don't know why it didn't work out-of-the-box!!
> 
> Here's a tip, I use Hoary, but this should work even on Breezy.  Instead
> of the miss you done with the "/etc/fstab", all you should do to mount a
> removable device is "pmount /dev/sda1", and that's it!!  (Note that you
> should run this command as the *user* who will access the device, most
> likely you, and *NOT* "root".  In other words: don't use "sudo" for that
> command.)
> 
> I hope this helped you even a little.
> Ziyad.


Hello Ziyad,

I don't why it didn't work out of the box either. It may be something 
that is broken at the stage Breezy is on my notebook.

I thought it was going to work perfectly when I saw an icon properly 
identifying the device. But alas. :(

Your pmount suggestion worked great. Thanks.
It puts up an sda1 icon along side the existing COWON iAUDIO G3 icon.

As to the other message.

I didn't create a partition. It already existed on the device. All I did 
was plug it in and Ubuntu discovered it.

I bought this 1gb mp3 player precisely because it contained a standard 
usbfs and did not require any "special" software to use. Some of the 
other ones when used on Windows required their "software" in order to 
access files on the device. I like companies with a clue.

Until the time when it works out of the box, thanks for the information.

Jimmie