New drive already has vfat after new fdisk

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Thu Jan 26 22:00:49 UTC 2006


Nat Gross wrote:

> ok. just ran mkfs on sda1, sda2, sda3.
> Now, I notice this line in /etc/fstab:
> /dev/sda1               /media/usbdisk          vfat   
> pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,managed 0 0
> 
> It seems like FC4 decided to that for me earlier, since this is a usb device.
> Anhow, do I need all those options (for the new mounts)?

Assuming this is the only removable, autodetected filesystem that is
around at the moment, try removing the drive, doing this:

fstab-sync --clean

and then inserting the drive again.

-Andy
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