Jonathan Kline wrote: > In general, you probably won't need to use mknod, it's used to make device > special files if they do not already exist, and chances are that /dev/sd[a-h] > [0-9] or so already exist. All you will need to do is mount the devices. > > After plugging in say a USB memory stick (assume it's the only usb storage > device and the only "scsi" device"), at the command line you would use: > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb > Where /dev/sda1 is the first partition of the first scsi device (your memory > stick here), and /mnt/usb is where in the filesystem you want the device to > be mounted. > > Automout is a bit trickier, but in essence you will need to add a line similar > to /etc/fstab: > /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto defaults 0 0 > > Then you will need to configure your choice of automount daemons to > automatically mount the appropriate usb device when it is made available. > > This might help you: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/ > > Cheers, > ~J One gotcha that can happen is the usb device might not have any partitions. So you will have to mount the whole device /dev/sda instead of a partition /dev/sda1. I have a couple of mp3 players that have that problem. Joseph