Ubuntu 9.10

Mount USB Drive in Ubuntu

by sahab on Jul.29, 2010, under Ubuntu, ubuntu 10.04, ubuntu 10.10, ubuntu 7.10, ubuntu 8.04, ubuntu 8.10, ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 9.10

Automount

In ubuntu storage devices that are plugged into the system mount automatically and place an icon on your desktop, often called “disk” and as more drives are added, you can get “disk-1″ and so on. The folder disk create under /media folder. If we give the command

#fdisk -l

It mounted on new device sdb, sdc etc

To have a program automatically start when you plug in a device, go to System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media.

Another one method is Open file browser select the menu Edit/preferences/media tab There you can select what happens when media is inserted. For example we need to turnoff audio CD auto play

CD audio “can do nothing” or “ask what to do” or “open folder”

Then Right Click the Device select Unmount for safely remove.

Command Line Mount

Sometimes devices don’t automount, in which case you should try to manually mount it. Most flash drives are FAT16 or FAT32 and most external hard disks are NTFS.

Create Mount Point

sudo mkdir /media/Disk

Then mount the USB using the below command, Lets assume sdb1 is device, For FAT 32

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/Disk -o uid=1000,gid=100,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137

The options following the “-o” allow your user to have ownership of the drive, and the masks allow for extra security for file system permissions. If you don’t use those extra options you may not be able to read and write the drive with your regular username.

For NTFS

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/Disk

Command for Unmount the Device

sudo umount /dev/sdb1 or sudo umount /media/Disk

Pmount

which allows unprivileged users to mount drives as if they were using sudo, even without an entry in /etc/fstab

For installing

#sudo apt-get install pmount

Example

pmount /dev/sdb1 test

This will mount the device /dev/sdb1 at /media/test

Prevent User access on USB Drive

For preventing the particular user access

System->Administration->User and Groups, choose the user, click on “Properties”, then go to the “User Privileges” tab.

Uncheck the options “Access external storage devices automatically”.

Use full commands

lsusb – list the usb devices

dmesg – When you encounter problems with USB devices, the first thing to do is to check the latest debug information generated from the kernel just after you plug in your device and/or just after you encounter the problem.

Stop ubuntu from creating shortcuts of Harddisk, USB in Desktop

Open the terminal or press alt+f2

Type

gconf-editor

Navigate to apps — nautilus — Desktop. Uncheck Volumes_visible check-box in right pane.

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Why ubuntu on Dell notebook

by sahab on Jun.11, 2010, under Ubuntu, ubuntu 10.04, ubuntu 10.10, ubuntu 7.10, ubuntu 8.04, ubuntu 8.10, ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 9.10

First and foremost, Ubuntu is an Operating System. Just like Microsoft^® Windows^® or Apple MacOS, you can use Ubuntu to surf the web, check email, or just about anything you might want to do. Here’s a “Top Ten” list of things you should know about Ubuntu.

10) Ubuntu is simple and elegant

If you’re the kind of person who likes your computer to simply work, Ubuntu is right for you. It’s based on stable, secure, easy-to-use software that’s been around for a long time.

9) Ubuntu is designed for the Internet

Do you spend most of your time on the Internet? Ubuntu connects you to the Internet in seconds. Firefox is a very popular browser and works well with practically every website you’ll run across, e.g. news sites, social media sites, etc. It also works great with web-based e-mail sites like Yahoo or Gmail.

Ubuntu is “social from the start”

The people who make Ubuntu designed it to be very social-media centric. Do you use Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or any of the other dozens of popular social networking sites? Ubuntu 9.10 works very well with these websites. And beginning with Ubuntu 10.04, these websites will be integrated into the Ubuntu OS itself for your convenience.

7) Ubuntu plays videos, songs, and movies easily

Do you like to watch videos on YouTube, buy songs from Amazon, pop in DVD’s from the local video store? No problem! Dell bundles a multimedia player with Ubuntu to deliver a great entertainment experience.(DRM protected music not supported.)

6) Ubuntu is safer than Microsoft^® Windows^®

The vast majority of viruses and spyware written by hackers are not designed to target and attack Linux.

For more info Dell opensource