fstab entry for usbkey

[mdsabila]

Hi all,

In FC1, I mount my usbkey by adding below entry in /etc/fstab.
Unfortunately I can't do the same in FC2. It keep complaining about
wrong filesystem and unable to mount it. What's the correct entry to add
in FC2 so it work exactly the same as in FC1?

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey   vfat
user,iocharset=utf8,umask=0,sync,quiet,exec,codepage=

TIA
mdsabila

[Dylan Parry]

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:48:49 +0800, mdsabila <mdsabila(a)time.net.my&gt; wrote:

>  /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey   vfat
>  user,iocharset=utf8,umask=0,sync,quiet,exec,codepage= 
Try setting the type to 'auto' instead of 'vfat'.

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[mdsabila]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 03:57, Dylan Parry wrote:
>  On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:48:49 +0800, mdsabila
> <mdsabila(a)time.net.my&gt; 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

Any suggestion?

[Ow Mun Heng]

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(a)time.net.my&gt; 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 ...
--

[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(a)time.net.my&gt; 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

[Jonathan Rawle]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:

>  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 ... 
After plugging in the usbkey, look in dmesg - that'll tell you what device
it has been allocated.

You can set up updfstab to write an entry in fstab with the correct device
every time you hotplug the usbkey - it might not always be the same one.

Jonathan

[mdsabila]

It work! Thanks for the tips on looking at dmesg. Found that codepage=
is the culprit. Just for info for those who might have the same problem,
this is my fstab entry :

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey   vfat user,iocharset=utf8,umask=0,sync,quiet,exec

can mount as user and there's an icon in computer folder too! 

Thanks.

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 18:49, Jonathan Rawle wrote:
>  Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>  
>  > 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 ...
>  
>  After plugging in the usbkey, look in dmesg - that'll tell you what device
>  it has been allocated.
>  
>  You can set up updfstab to write an entry in fstab with the correct device
>  every time you hotplug the usbkey - it might not always be the same one.
>  
>  Jonathan
>  
>

[mdsabila]

Sure it's sda1. 

#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey

always works fine but that's not the best way to do it. Only good when
it's the only option left. Can someone point me why this doesn't work in
FC2? Just want to get the picture.
  

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 04:26, 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(a)time.net.my&gt;
> 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 ...
>  -- 
>

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 03:48 +0800, mdsabila wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  In FC1, I mount my usbkey by adding below entry in /etc/fstab.
>  Unfortunately I can't do the same in FC2. It keep complaining about
>  wrong filesystem and unable to mount it. What's the correct entry to add
>  in FC2 so it work exactly the same as in FC1?
>  
>  /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey   vfat
>  user,iocharset=utf8,umask=0,sync,quiet,exec,codepage= 
Because of some scsi devices with bad behaviour, PROBE_ALL_SCSI_LUNS is
turned off on Fedora's Linux.

You may need to add:

options scsi_mod max_luns=9


to /etc/modprobe.conf (or /etc/modules.conf if you use Linux 2.4)

9 was enough for me, your mileage may vary according to the device.

It may also happen that that device is not yet whitelisted in your
version of Linux...

Rui