How do you mount USB pen drives?

I'm writing this thread on behalf of myself and sabashuali , as neither of us actually know how to mount USB devices! SuSE Linux auto-mounts USB pen drives so I don't have a problem there. VectorLinux 3.2 doesn't however, and I'm not sure how to fix this.

The activity light flashes on the pen drive when I plug it in, so it's obviously getting recognised. However, I'm not sure where it's being mounted (if at all) as theres no /mnt/usb-storage or /mnt/pendrive folders. I've been playing around with the FSTAB file, but I don't have a clue what i'm doing!

How should I go about accessing my pendrive?

 

Try:

Code:

mkdir /mnt/usbdrive
mount /dev/sda(or sdb?) /mnt/usbdrive

 

Thanks Addis, that worked for my MP3 player! It's actually being mounted at /dev/sda1, and I set a mount point to /mnt/pendrive

Strangely enough though, this trick hasn't worked for my pendrive! The only difference between that and the mp3 player aside from the size, is the USB specification. The MP3 player is USB1.1 and the pendrive is USB2.0 - i'm plugging them into an old USB1.1 port.

Surely this wouldn't cause problems would it?

 

Did you try using it as sdb instead of sda?

 

I think it's more serious than that. If I type mseg to see a list of events, there are several error messages referring to the device. I'll post the errors later when I get home.

[ot] I love Linux Live CDs! I'm in a college lesson at the moment, so I thought i'd boot up Knoppix and have a quick browse on the forums [/ot]