[juneau-lug] Re: Trying to mount 4GB USB drive on Debian Stable
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- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, 'Nels Tomlinson' <nels.tomlinson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:32:50 -0400
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On Tue Jun 12 12:35 , "Nels Tomlinson" sent:=0D
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>Hello, All,=0D
>I'm trying to mount a 4GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive on Debian Stable. I wa=
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>able to copy a file to it on my Windows machine at work, which told me tha=
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>the filesystem is FAT32.=0D
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>On my Debian Stable box at home, I can't mount it. Lsusb shows that it is=
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>plugged in, and fdisk reports the correct information for /dev/sda, with n=
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>partitions. When I try to mount it, mount tells me ``wrong filesystem typ=
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>...''. Less /proc/filesystems shows that my box supports vfat, but doesn'=
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>mention fat. I think that the vfat should work with fat, right?=0D
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>Does anyone have any ideas for what I should try to get it mounted?=0D
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>Thanks,=0D
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>Nels=0D
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Nels, =0D
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Try /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 instead of the sda device, and try leaving out t=
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partition type so mount can autodetect it.=0D
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You're right, vfat should be right choice. You could try msdos, but IIRC t=
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to the 12 bit floppy fat. You can get a list of supported partition types =
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in /usr/share/doc - I forget the exact package name, it might be under moun=
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something like unixutils. (I am at a Windows machine now.)=0D
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James=0D
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