[CVALE] USB Thumb Drive

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Tuesday 02 January 2007 10:55, Landon Blake said something like:
> I bought my first thumb drive last week. It was almost painless to
> get it working in Linux, which shocked me. (Is anything in Linux ever
> painless.) It wasn't quite plug and play, but almost. All I had to do
> was add a line in the fstab file and mount the directory representing
> the thumb drive. Very handy.

What distro are you using?  In recent versions of leading distros (FC, 
Ubuntu, Suse) all you had to do was plug in the unit, and you would get 
a pop-up asking if you wanted to mount it.  At least if you were in a 
GUI environment.  I've not had to edit fstab for a USB key in quite 
some time.

j

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