fstab entry for usbkey

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Wed Jun 2 20:26:30 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 13:12, mdsabila wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 03:57, Dylan Parry wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:48:49 +0800, mdsabila <mdsabila at time.net.my> wrote:
> > 
> > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey   vfat
> > > user,iocharset=utf8,umask=0,sync,quiet,exec,codepage=
> > 
> > Try setting the type to 'auto' instead of 'vfat'.
> > 
> 
> Tried but same error. It said : Unable to mount the selected volume. The
> volume is probably in a format that cannot be mounted.
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, or too
> many mounted file systems

Are you sure it's at sda1?? Can you take a look at your
/var/log/messages when you plug it in? or maybe even do a  cat
/proc/partitions

It might be loaded up as sda2 or sdb1 or ...
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