/dev/sda1 is not in the User Mount tool and yet my flash drive is plugged in.

[Russell Golden]

did you make the /mnt/flash directory? it usually helps to do so.

Stephen Akandwanaho wrote:

>Hello all !
>
>Iam wondering why my usb drive or flash drive is never detected on my
>Linux machine.
>when i run  ls /mnt/flash , it says no such directory.
>
>and when i run cat /etc/fstab, i dont see this line there  "/dev/sda1
>/mnt/flash auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 " it's not there.
>
>and when i run dmesg | grep scsi0 -A 3 ,i only get errors. SO IAM
>WONDERING WHAT COULD BE THE PROBLEM and i want to copy some data from
>there but it cant be mounted.
>
>Thank you
>Stephen Akandwanaho
>
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