On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:01:42AM +0000, Bryan Anderson wrote: [...] > I followed teh instructions above, then tried to mount it again as above > and got the same error. However....bit of thinking, I tried mounting it > with mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/flash (no 1 after the sda) and it > works. [...] Right, I've seen flash drives with all kinds of partitioning schemes, /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda4 . So if a user asks me to make their flash drive available, I usually run fdisk on the drive to see the partition layout and modify fstab accordingly. BTW: is there a way to autodetect which partition is present? Windows seems to pull that off without the user even knowing that such a drive has a partition table at all. David Jansen
