Using USB DRIVES on Athena
To use a keychain USB flash drive on an Athena Workstation, you can
use the 'attach-usb' and 'detach-usb'* commands in the consult
locker. First, plug your drive into one of the computer's USB ports.
Next, run the commands
add consult
attach-usb
at an athena% prompt. attach-usb will search the computer to locate
the USB drive, and when it finds it, it will mount the drive on
/mnt/usb. If necessary, you can find out the root password for public
Athena workstations with the command:
tellme root
If you're using a private workstation, you will need to ask the
maintainer of the workstation for help.
Once the drive is mounted, you can view and manipulate the files on
the drive with standard UNIX commands and tools. You can also view the
files in the Nautilus graphical file browser by running the following
command in a terminal:
nautilus /mnt/usb &
*NOTE!: Please be sure to run the command
detach-usb
before removing the drive from the computer. This does two beneficial
things:
- It flushes the disk cache, making sure that anything you saved
to the drive is completely finished saving.
- It cleans up the /mnt/usb mountpoint, so that the computer
is ready for the next person who might want to use it.
Last updated: $Date: 2005/02/10 19:21:45 $
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