On Saturday 11 December 2004 22:41, Arkajyoti Misra wrote: > I have a similar problem on FC1 and I cannot mount the usb stick on > /dev/sda1. Here is what my /etc/fstab looks like... > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat > noauto,owner,user,sync 0 0 > > The error message is > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device I would change vfat to auto. at least it works for me. my fstab also doesn't have the owner or sync options on that line. But, I would imagine that the vfat part is causing your problems. jeff lee -- printk ("Kicking board.\n"); linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/lp486e.c -- printk(KERN_EMERG "PCI: Tell willy he's wrong\n"); linux-2.6.6/arch/parisc/kernel/pci.c