USB Pen Drive?

Demond James djames1 at insight.rr.com
Sat Nov 22 02:55:28 UTC 2003


Try this article, it very good:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1256786,00.asp

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:27, 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:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
>         or too many mounted file systems
> 
> 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!
> 
> Bryan Anderson <fedora at bryananderson.co.uk>
> 
> 
> 
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