USB stick seen on list?

Hi, how do I get my USB stick to appear on the list as you would a CD? I am interested, because a CD does not have the big capacity as an usb stick does have now...

Deezerfly wrote:
Hi, how do I get my USB stick to appear on the list as you would a CD? I am interested, because a CD does not have the big capacity as an usb stick does have now...
If you are referring to the list of Devices which appear in the sidebar, a USB stick will not appear.
iTunes only recognizes CDs, iPods, and certain DVDs (which contain a Digital Copy - transfer done through iTunes Store) being mounted.
You would need to manually drag and drop the files themselves through the Finder onto a USB stick.

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[SOLVED] Mounted USB stick immediately unmounts itself - why?

Hi all,
I thought I was unable to mount a USB stick, however it does actually mount but then it gets immediately unmounted by something:
# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt
# ls /mnt
<empty folder>
# umount /mnt
umount: /mnt: not mounted
# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt && ls /mnt
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# ls /mnt
<empty folder>
Somehow the USB stick is getting automatically *unmounted* almost immediately after I mount it!
I don't have any automounts enabled, so I'm not sure why this would happen. If I make a different folder (e.g. /root/test) and mount it there then it sticks, it is only the /mnt folder that gets automatically unmounted.
Any idea what's going on? I've never seen this happen before, and last time I tried this (a week or two ago) it worked fine.
Last edited by Malvineous (2015-03-15 01:15:16)

brebs wrote:Use "mount -v" (i.e. "verbose") to get some feedback - it's most likely not being mounted.
Like I said in my first post, if you run "ls" immediately after the mount then you can see the contents of the USB stick, so it's definitely getting mounted, but waiting only a few hundred milliseconds after the mount reveals it has been unmounted again. What is causing the unmount is unknown.
brebs wrote:
Immediately after running that mount command, run:
echo $?
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Yes it is zero, because the mount command succeeds. "ls" wouldn't be able to list the files on the USB stick if the mount failed. It is something else that is unmounting the folder mere milliseconds after it is successfully mounted, but I don't know where else to look to find out what it could be.
brebs wrote:Also, mounting to /mnt is very weird - you should be mounting a directory *inside* /mnt.
I am mounting inside /mnt, I just used /mnt as an example to keep things simple.
Vain wrote:
I made the same “mistake”. Try running “systemctl status mnt.mount” and see which device the output refers to. For me, it still listed the old device name. Hence, when you mount it, systemd tries to find the (old) device—which it can’t—and thus unmounts your device immediately.
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Interesting idea! Unfortunately I have nothing listed for this particular mount point. The only *.mount services on my system are the ones that are mounted at boot (e.g. srv.mount for /srv). I have the "noauto" option against this mount point in fstab (as USB sticks aren't normally attached to my system when I boot) so sensibly enough I don't seem to have a mount service running for this particular mount point.

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I have got a brand new W510 that i am doing a clean install of Windows 7.
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I have the BIOS from Lenovo v 1.35, Bios settting are reset to default to isolate any faulty settings.
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Picture 1
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Picture 2
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Picture 3
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Windows USB Stick will not show up as a bootable volume

I've been doing a ton of research on this and just can't seem to get it to work. I recently bought a mac mini, the 2011 version with the Radeon video card. I want to dual boot the machine using bootcamp and I have a windows 7 iso image.
I bought an 8GB usb 2.0 stick and ran the bootcamp assistant to create the usb stick. When the mini reboots, it just displays a message saying there is no bootable volume.
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In theory, refit should show me one mac volume and two windows volumes (my windows partition on the mac hd and my usb stick). It only shows one. It there anything I can do to get my mini to recognize that I have a bootable usb stick? I have a usb keyboard and usb mouse plugged in as well. The OS that the mini is running is Lion and it is completely up to date.
I've looked through the forums and seen nothing that seems to fix my issue.
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when trying to mount my usb sticks from xfce4 desktop(halmount).
Following error occurs (as told by dmesg).
FAT: IO charset ISO-8859-1 not found
First i suspected hal being the culprit but now im not so sure anymore.
im using stock 2.6.31-ARCH.
when i checked the .config for the stock kernel CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y is enabled in the kernelconfig, and also everything below to support fat32.
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
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CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
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/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-3.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-4.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-5.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-6.ko
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Based on the information given in http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82176, I changed in /etc/rc.conf from LOCALE=en_GB.iso88591 to LOCALE=en_GB.utf8, uncommented en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen, issued # locale-gen and after a reboot, I was able to mount my usb sticks again.
However, now I get "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!" in dmesg. Is this something, I need to worry about...?
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I spoke with Toshiba tech support.
I'm ashamed to take this $3900 tv back to Wal-Mart.
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I am trying to write a LabVIEW app that will be able to detect that a USB stick/key has been inserted into the computer. I know that I can get the names and serial numbers of all the drives that are currently mounted. However, I do not know how to check to see if one of them is a USB mass storage device, more specifically a USB stick as opposed to a USB-attached optical drive.
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Thank you. I think I am just going to go with the polling with the list directory VI every 100 ms or around that. Just compare the new list of drives to the old ones, if there is a new one I will take the action that I want.
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Kyle
Message Edited by Kyle Thompson on 05-29-2007 08:07 AM

I don't understand how to put the core files on usb stick

I read the instructions here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _USB_stick but I am not sure how to do this I tried this way ( using cmd prompt on winxp x64) dd if=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Torrents\archlinux-2008.06-core-x86_64.img=/dev/sd[F]
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jo3 wrote:
dd is a unix command.
I have not used flashnul in a while so IIRC first plug in your usb stick and type "flashnul -p" at a command prompt to get a list of devices. Then type "flashnul flash_device_number -L archlinux-2008.06-core-x86_64.img" to copy the img to the device.
HTH
-jo3
hank you for your reply.
Well Iguess flashnul isn't working properly because when I type in "flashnul -p" it just quits.
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Well it ended up being that my usb stick was "f: I kept trying dd if=archlinux-2008.06-core-x86_64.img of=\\.\f:Kingston"and not "f: I kept trying dd if=archlinux-2008.06-core-x86_64.img of=\\.\f"
I am thinking that the The Cygwin Way
Make sure your cygwin installation contains the dd package.
Place your image file in your home directory, in my case it is:
C:\cygwin\home\John\
Run cygwin as administrator (required for cygwin to access hardware). To write to your USB drive use the following command:
dd if=image.img of=\\.\[x]:
where image.img is the path to the img file within the cygwin directory and \\.\[x]: is your USB device where x is the windows designated letter, in my case "\\.\d:".
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