Mounting a USB Flash Drive
 

I try to mount my USB flash drive and I get the following message:

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


I am using Fedora Core 2, am new to Linux, and trying to learn this in class. Instructor isn't much help.

Sometimes, the partition table is not correctly interpreted. In some cases, it works to mount the device itself (/dev/sda) instead of the partition (/dev/sda1). You could also try to re-format the flash drive under Linux.

what format is it; vfat or NTFS?

It is in the VFAT format. Or so I thought.

As root try mount it with command:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt