How to Mount a USB key under Solaris

How to Mount a USB key under Solaris

Contents

• 1 Introduction
  
  
  
  • 1.1 Purpose
  
  
  • 1.2 Scope
  
  
  • 1.3 Acronyms
  
  
  • 1.4 References
  
  
  • 1.5 Overview
  
  
  
  


• 2 Steps
  
  
  
  • 2.1 Solaris 10 x86 / SPARC
  
  
  • 2.2 Links
  
  
  
  

Introduction

This HOWTO explains how to mount a USB key under Solaris.

Purpose

Scope

Solaris 10 x86 / SPARC

Acronyms

References

• Solaris Forums - Mount an USB key under solaris 10 x86

Overview

Steps

Solaris 10 doesn't seem to understand FAT32 filesystems. FAT16 works as expected.

Solaris 10 x86 / SPARC

1. Insert the USB key in one of the USB slots.


2. mkdir /rmdisk


3. /etc/init.d/volmgt stop


4. /etc/init.d/volmgt start


5. mount | grep rmdisk

It should be there.

If the above doesn't work please try

1. /etc/init.d/volmgt stop
   
   
   
   • (In Solaris 10's Single User boot mode you do not have to stop volmgt)
   
   
   
   


2. iostat -En
   
   
   
   • Look for your USB device.
   
   
   
   


3. mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0:c /mnt
   
   
   
   • mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0:c /mnt
   
   
   
   

Secondary way to mount the USB

1. cd /dev/rdsk


2. iostat –En

c5t0d0 Soft Errors: 2 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: USB 2.0 Product: Flash Disk Revision: 1.00 Serial No: Size: 0.13GB <130023424 bytes> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 2 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

1. devfsadm -C


2. ls -l c*0 | grep usb

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 Jun 7 16:32 c5t0d0s0 ->../../devices/pci@1e,600000/usb@b/hub@1/storage@1/disk@0,0:a,raw

1. mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c5t0d0s0:c /mnt

How to unmount the USB

1. fuser -c -u /mnt

/mnt:

1. umount /mnt

Solaris 10,latest update has no volmgt, also ls -l c*0 has no usb as result (what to do in that case), but with iostat -En I have a recognizable usb-stick at c6t0d0. For my situation it is just out of touch. Maybe someone can update it?
Not a DOS filesystem - alternate mount command

The mount command about assumes that the media contains a valid FDISK partition table and the DOS filesystem is inside a separate FDISK partition. Most of the time this is the case.

But there are devices that don't include an FDISK partition table, the DOS filesystem starts on sector #0 of the media. In that case the mount command should look like this (':c' removed):

mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s2 /mnt