USB Pen Drive?

[Rick Stevens]

Bryan Anderson wrote:
> 
> I have a PQI Travelling Disk 2 (256MB, USB2) pen drive that *says* it's 
> Linux compatible. If I plug it in, the /mnt/flash is created, /etc/fstab
> gets an additional line:
> 
> /dev/sda1     /mnt/flash    auto    noauto,owner,kudzu        0 0
> 
> but trying to mount /mnt/flash gives me an error:
> 
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> if I change the /etc/fstab line to include vfat instead of auto (the pen 
> drive is formatted with Windows XP), then I get:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> I imagine that it's a simple configuration problem with the fstab line, 
> but have no clue about where to start on a solution.
> 
> Any help would be great - you guys are much, much more helpful than 
> anyone on usenet!

You need to create filesystems on the pen drive.  Do an
"fdisk -l /dev/sda".  See if you get a "/dev/sda1" or something
like it.  If you don't, you need to partition the drive and make a
filesystem on it using fdisk and "mkfs -t ext3" or "mkfs -t vfat" (for
a DOS-compatible filesystem).

If you do get a partition, see what the filesystem type is and specify
that using the "-t" option of mount:

      mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash

(that assumes a vfat filesystem).
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