On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Margo wrote: > THank you. Entered the command and then it got weird. Flash disk > blinked steadily for a few minutes ( I assume formatting) at the end > tried to mounbt the disk and got the SAME ERROR. > > Put the disk back in Windows and there were still files on it. It had > not been formatted. > > I think I'll just leave it for now, thank you everyone for your help. But my point really was if it is formatted vfat it should work. FWIW (tigger pts10) # mount /dev/flash on /mnt/flash type vfat (rw,0) (tigger pts10) # (tigger pts10) # grep flash /etc/fstab /dev/flash /mnt/flash vfat,noauto,noatime,suid=0 0 0 (tigger pts10) # If you do something like: devlabel add -d /dev/sda1 -s /dev/flash --automount it will create the link from /dev/sda1 to /mnt/flash automagically. You do have the hotplug package installed don't you?? HTH, ..............Tom
