Am So, den 26.06.2005 schrieb Uno Engborg um 14:01: > I have problem mounting MS-DOS discettes from Gnome. The discettes are > handled by an USB discette unit from Acer. > The unit seams to be recognized when connected, as the drive makes some > sounds indicating that it is trying to read the discette, and the Gnome > icon in the Computer folder changes to a disk with an USB stick. > > However, when I double click the disk it refuses to mount. The error > dialog tells me that it need to know the file system type. > > The same thing happens from the command line if I do > > mount /dev/sda /mnt > > but if I do > mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mount > everything works fine. > > I do have vfat listed in /etc/filesystems, so why do I need to specify > the filesystem type? > > Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong, or is this a bug? > Uno Engborg This is normal behaviour of the mount command. You always have to specific a filesystem. This is not necessary only when an according fstab entry exists which has the instruction which filesystem to be used. So you may add to your /etc/fstab /dev/sda /media/usbfloppy vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 (instead of "vfat" "auto" may work) Then you are able to mount the USB connected floppy by running "mount /dev/sda", or from nautilus too. Make sure the mountpoint exists. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 18:07:29 up 1 day, 59 users, load average: 0.11, 0.17, 0.23
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