Bryan Anderson wrote:
I have a PQI Travelling Disk 2 (256MB, USB2) pen drive that *says* it's
Linux compatible. If I plug it in, the /mnt/flash is created, /etc/fstab
gets an additional line:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
but trying to mount /mnt/flash gives me an error:
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
if I change the /etc/fstab line to include vfat instead of auto (the pen
drive is formatted with Windows XP), then I get:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
or too many mounted file systems
I imagine that it's a simple configuration problem with the fstab line,
but have no clue about where to start on a solution.
Any help would be great - you guys are much, much more helpful than
anyone on usenet!
You need to create filesystems on the pen drive. Do an
"fdisk -l /dev/sda". See if you get a "/dev/sda1" or something
like it. If you don't, you need to partition the drive and make a
filesystem on it using fdisk and "mkfs -t ext3" or "mkfs -t vfat" (for
a DOS-compatible filesystem).
If you do get a partition, see what the filesystem type is and specify
that using the "-t" option of mount:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
(that assumes a vfat filesystem).
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