Re^2: Opening a USB drive for storing info.

If the USB drive uses a FAT based filesystem, you may need to mount with cifs as well.

Nope, CIFS is the modern replacement for SMB; both are used only to connect to Windows and Samba shares. It is a network file system like NFS and others, and it has no relation with FAT file systems except that a Windows or Samba server can share drives or folders on a drive formatted with a FAT filesystem.

Most USB sticks come preformatted with VFAT-32. Using a mount command without an explicit filesystem option (-t) auto-detects that on any recent Linux distribution. Note that you may need root privileges to mount filesystems not listed in /etc/fstab.

Alexander

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Re^3: Opening a USB drive for storing info. by davido (Cardinal) on May 23, 2011 at 19:07 UTC
Ah, you're right... I was thinking of my Buffalo Linkstation Live NAS LS-XHL, with respect to CIFS. The other advice seems to be relatively on-track. ;) Dave	[reply]