USB Pen Drive?

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:27:07PM +0000, Bryan Anderson wrote:
> 
> I have a PQI Travelling Disk 2 (256MB, USB2) pen drive that *says* it's 
> Linux compatible. If I plug it in, the /mnt/flash is created, /etc/fstab
> gets an additional line:
> 
> /dev/sda1     /mnt/flash    auto    noauto,owner,kudzu        0 0
> 
> but trying to mount /mnt/flash gives me an error:
> 
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> if I change the /etc/fstab line to include vfat instead of auto (the pen 
> drive is formatted with Windows XP), then I get:

If you have already formatted it, with which file system? XP supports
VFAT, which Linux can read and write, and NTFS which Linux can
sometimes read and cannot write. If the latter, reformat it for VFAT.

> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
>        or too many mounted file systems

This sounds like you may have NTFS on it.

> 
> I imagine that it's a simple configuration problem with the fstab line, 
> but have no clue about where to start on a solution.
> 
> Any help would be great - you guys are much, much more helpful than
> anyone on usenet!

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