[ale] USB Pendrive on RH 8.0

[Pete Hardie]

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> Sorry, deleted the original so I'll need to reply here.
> 
> I use a couple of these (one is a backup that has a cracked case) that I
> use for storing my gpg keys, password list (gpg encrypted) pics of my
> wife, etc.  Works great.
> 
> USB and scsi emulation are compiled into the kernel, scsi generic
> device, usb mass storage and the filesystems are modules.
> 
> Steps:
>   Physically plug in the drive
>   modprobe usb-storage
>   modprobe sg
>   modprobe fat
>   modprobe vfat
>   mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/mnt -t vfat -o uid=nomad
>   cd /tmp/mnt
> 
> 
> Works great.  For some reason auto-loading the modules doesn't work
> right so I can't put it in autofs.

By 'auto-loading the modules doesn't work right', do you mean that they appear 
to be loaded but fail to work, or that they fail to load?  Mine appear to be 
loaded ok, AFAICT.

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