mounting usbstick in fc2

Timothy Ha linuxmail at yandex.ru
Sat Dec 11 09:12:33 UTC 2004


/dev/sda1 should be the partition you are mounting.

Peter Lesterhuis wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to mount my usbstick. But it won't happen.
> Hardware browser detects the usbstick (/dev/sda). I created a new 
> directory in /mnt (mkdir usb). I added a line in /fstab
>
> ]$ cat /etc/fstab
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    
> defaults        1 1
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  
> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   
> defaults        0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    
> defaults        0 0
> none                    /sys                    sysfs   
> defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda3               swap                    swap    
> defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> /dev/sda                /mnt/usb                vfat    
> noauto,owner,user,sync 0 0
>
> But whwn I try to mount the system coms up with this message:
>
> ]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
>       or too many mounted file systems
>
> When I change files type (in /fstab) in "auto", the following lines 
> occur:
>
> # mount /dev/sda /mnt/usb
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type





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