Mounting a USB Flash Drive

hm3buzz · 08-24-2006, 10:34 AM

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.

abisko00 · 08-24-2006, 10:37 AM

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.

ramram29 · 08-24-2006, 10:39 AM

what format is it; vfat or NTFS?

hm3buzz · 08-25-2006, 09:23 AM

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

ramram29 · 08-25-2006, 10:05 AM

As root try mount it with command:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt