Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Fingerprint USB Stick

 



Good afternoon
Mi Nov 20 15:10:22 2013
Thank You for email and help.

> > how can I clean the win stick for use him for Linux?
>
> Well, you may not need to.
>
> It is common for USB sticks (which look like discs to the OS) to
> be formatted with a FAT32 filesystem (a Windows format) because
> almost everything can read and write that.
>
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Thank You.

> It is not a great filesystem, but it is very portable. You can
> insert such a USB stick into a Windows machine, or a Linux machine,
> a Mac, or many common embedded machine such as blu-ray players and
> TVs, and all can read the data on it.
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How can I reach the stick with MC?
It is not shown.

>
> So, if your Linux system does not mount the stick automatically
> you can probably mount it like this:

>
> mkdir /mnt/usb-stick
> mount -t vfat /dev/sdX1 /mnt/usb-stick
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I ll try this.
Thank You.

>
> You will need to replace "sdX1" with an specific device name. When you
> insert a USB stick the kernel will allocate it a device name and recite
> it in the kernel log. So issue the command:
>
> dmesg
>
> At the bottom you will find text like this:
>
> [9490472.257322] scsi 19:0:0:0: Direct-Access 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
> [9490472.257429] sd 19:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
> [9490472.258050] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdh] 250272768 512-byte logical blocks:
> (128 GB/119 GiB)
> [9490472.258595] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off
> [9490472.258599] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00
> [9490472.259045] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdh] Write cache: disabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [9490472.262048] sdh: sdh1
> [9490472.264036] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI removable disk
>
> >From this you can deduce that the mount command should be:
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/sdh1 /mnt/usb-stick
>
> Once that is done, you can cd into /mnt/usb-stick and copy or remove
> files and so forth.
>
> When finished, issue the command:
>
> umount /mnt/usb-stick
>
> before unplugging the USB stick.
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Is this the same
like unmount every stick?

Can I destroy something?
I think: No.

Regards

Sophie

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