Mount msdos storage

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue Apr 27 17:59:40 UTC 2004


duncan brown wrote:
> Shuji Urano said:
> 
>>Hi guys.
>>
>>I'd like to mount USB removable storage that is msdos(fat16) formatted
>>on Fedora Core 2 Test 2.
> 
> 
> i believe all of the answers to your fedora 2 test 2 questions can be
> found here:
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-February/msg03062.html
> (thanks, alexander)
> 
> 
>>I'm attempting a storage as follows.
>>
>>mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/ms
> 
> 
> you want vfat, not msdos

And most pre-formatted USB drives use partition 4, not 1 so your mount
would be "mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/ms"
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