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USB Drives

Windows

For the windows machines, any USB flash card that follows the USB mass media standards should work just fine. Just plug it in, and the removeable drive will show up on your desktop.

Sun

For the Sun machines, the same limitations apply. Any cards that follows the standards _should_ work. Simply plug the card in, run 'volcheck' and the card should be mounted under /rmdisk/<volume name>. To eject the card, simply type eject /rmdisk/<volume name>.

Linux, debian3

The debian3 platform does not support pluggable media at this time. Machines are being upgraded to ubuntu1 which does support pluggable media. We do setup, on CS machines, special fstab entries for pluggable media, but they aren't as reliable as the pmount method.

Linux, ubuntu1

On the ubuntu1 platform if you are using Gnome, usb disks will be mounted automatically.

For other desktop environments, you can use the pmount command to mount the removable media.

• First, plug in the media.
• Then, run the 'dmesg' command to see what device entry was given. Another way to list what devices are from hotplug actions is 'ls -l /dev/* | grep plugdev'. Most of the time this will be /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sda1.
• Run 'pmount /dev/sda1' and it will appear in /media/sda1 .
• Run 'pumount /dev/sda1' when finished with the disk, before removing the media

If you have any problems getting any of this to work, please email , and we'll see what we can get working.