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Can I mount my own external storage (mp3 player, hard drive, thumb drive, etc) on the unix machines?

April 26, 2017drive external machines Mount mp3 player storage Thumb Unix

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Can I mount my own external storage (mp3 player, hard drive, thumb drive, etc) on the unix machines?

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Most of our Linux machines support USB2 (high speed) and all support USB1. If your device is (or can pretend to be) a standard USB mass-storage device with a supported (ext2, ext3, DOS/Win, ISO9660) filesystem on it, and comes in some sort of standard partition or whole-device-is-a-filesystem format, then you should be able to mount it with the /lusr/bin/usbmount command. You *must* then unmount it after usage to prevent data loss! If that command fails, please send to gripe@cs the output of running the command with your drive plugged in and we will try to help you get it working. We have no support for firewire on any of our machines at this time, and some USB devices which require special drivers will not work. However, the majority of off-the-shelf devices we’ve tested work fine, including the dumber variety of USB flash-memory-card readers.