On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 12:27, Thomas Munck Steenholdt wrote: > > /dev/sda /mnt/flash vfat user,rw O O > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/iriver vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0 > > Oh yeah, that should do strange stuff... > You're mounting the entire disk (sda) on /mnt/flash (which would probably > fail since it's not likely to look like a valid vfat device) > Even if it for some reason does NOT fail the next one probably will > > In either case - nothing useful can com out of this! > > sda == entire disk > sda1 == first partition on the disk > > /Thomas In fact I have to use /dev/sda when mounting my usbkey a PQI 256Mo USB2.0 If I try to mount in under /dev/sda1 or whatever else i will not work... It took several days to understand that to mount this usbkey I had to use /dev/sda , don't ask me why I have no clue, but it works ;) Regards, Ludo ________________________________________________________________ http://www.lubox.com - http://forum.lubox.com Email Services, How-To (Linux,PHP,...), Freeware... Come have a look, and you can even drop a msg on the forum!