fstab entry for usbkey

[Alex White]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> 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 ...

It could also be sitting on sda, I've seen and had a few do 
that as well. Rather than sda1 or sda2. YMMV

Alex White