The above command is an attempt at mounting the entire disc not just a partition.
It's the whole HDD I'm trying to mount. It isn't partitioned (yet). But even mounting sda1 doesn't work.


mkdir /mnt/sda1
mkdir /usb1
mkdir /iamanapeman

Then you can mount any partition to any mount point you like.

mount /dev/sda1 /usb1
mount /dev/sda2 /iamanapeman
So, if I mkdir and create the mount point, how do I point the USB drive to it? mount /dev/sda/mount point?

Just add yourself to /etc/sudoers and you won't get reported anymore. Don't feel bad, even root gets reported if he's not in that file.
lol I had to laugh when I read that.


You want a line in /etc/fstab (if it's a HD install, it's probably already there: just remove the # in front of it):

/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,sync,umask=000 0 0
Hmm, that confuses me. How does that work?

(Note that this assumes that /mnt/sda1 already exists -- if not, create it, also that your usb drive is formatted with some kind of fat, if not, change the filesystem type)
The USB HDD is ntfs. I don't care about write access, I just want to be able to access the files.


For some reason, Knoppix-STD doesn't give me this problem. I simply mount the drive, and that's it. I wish I knew why Knoppix 3.3 is so picky.