I am running CentOS 4.7. I have a USB flash (thumb) drive that has a bunch of files placed there by Windows. I plugged it into the CentOS machine, and when I listed the files under "/media/usb-name", there was nothing there. I created an empty file: touch blah and it showed up when I did list it. I noticed, checking dmesg that it was attached to /dev/sdb. So I did a quick fdisk /dev/sdb I saw that it had a partition of type of W95 FAT16 under /dev/sdb1. How come I'm not able to see files placed on that device by XP/Vista machines when I plug it into the CentOS 4.7 machine, but I'm able to create a file on it, and list it? I did double-check and plugged that drive into my XP workstation and sure enough I was able to see all the files. === Al
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:10 -0700, Al Sparks wrote:> How come I'm not able to see files placed on that device by XP/Vista > machines when I plug it into the CentOS 4.7 machine, but I'm able to > create a file on it, and list it? I did double-check and plugged that > drive into my XP workstation and sure enough I was able to see all the > files.Because you didn't mount it. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090407/366232eb/attachment-0002.sig>
That worked. Thanks.
=== Al
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From: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] USB Thumb Drive Confusion
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:10 -0700, Al Sparks wrote:> How come I'm not able to see files placed on that device by XP/Vista
> machines when I plug it into the CentOS 4.7 machine, but I'm able to
> create a file on it, and list it? I did double-check and plugged that
> drive into my XP workstation and sure enough I was able to see all the
> files.
Because you didn't mount it.
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