USB storage device does not get mounted.

toxic_brain · 02-28-2008, 01:22 AM

I ma trying to mount my mobile phone (Sony Ericsson w810i) into RH9 with KDE.
It detects and appers in sda

Code:

[root@new anoop]# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 500 MB, 500969984 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 477 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *         1       478    489228+   6  FAT16

but it throws-up an error when i try to mount.

Code:

[root@new anoop]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /home/anoop/temp/drive
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
       or too many mounted file systems

I even tried with fat=16 option,

Code:

[root@new anoop]# mount -t vfat -o fat=16 /dev/sda /home/anoop/temp/drive
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
       or too many mounted file systems

pls help.

tredegar · 02-28-2008, 05:34 AM

Quote:

Code:

[root@new anoop]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /home/anoop/temp/drive
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
       or too many mounted file systems

FAT16 != vfat
So try:

Code:

mount  -t  msdos   /dev/sda  /home/anoop/temp/drive

toxic_brain · 02-28-2008, 05:58 AM

I tried, but

Code:

[root@new anoop]# mount  -t  msdos   /dev/sda  /home/anoop/temp/drive
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
       or too many mounted file systems

jschiwal · 02-28-2008, 06:27 AM

You are trying to mount the drive device instead of the filesystem. Use /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda.

tredegar · 02-28-2008, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Use /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda

The devil's in the details. Well spotted!

toxic_brain · 02-28-2008, 11:25 PM

I tried, but

Code:

[root@new anoop]# mount -t msdos /dev/sda1  /home/anoop/temp/drive
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
       or too many mounted file systems

by the way I tried with usbfs as,

Code:

[root@new anoop]# mount -t usbfs /dev/sda1  /home/anoop/temp/drive

and it got mounted without any error.
But the content shows up the mounted folder is something different than in the memory card.

Code:

[root@new anoop]# ls /home/anoop/temp/drive
001  002  003  004  devices  drivers

wat is wrong?

Electro · 02-29-2008, 03:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tredegar

FAT16 != vfat
So try:

Code:

mount  -t  msdos   /dev/sda  /home/anoop/temp/drive

Wrong, FAT16 is still vfat. Also the example that you specify is also wrong. The correct syntax to mount devices is the following.

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/anoop/temp/drive

Just forgot to specify the partition number that is why it error out. A raw device can not be mounted.

If you do not want to support long file names you can use msdos.

toxic_brain · 02-29-2008, 04:16 AM

no luck for me

Code:

[root@new anoop]# fdisk -l /dev/sda1

Disk /dev/sda1: 500 MB, 500969984 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 477 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

     Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
[root@new anoop]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/anoop/temp/drive
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
       or too many mounted file systems

jschiwal · 02-29-2008, 05:29 PM

Look at "sudo file -s /dev/sda1". Double check that you have the right filesystem.

Electro · 02-29-2008, 11:54 PM

Your problem could be that /home is mounted using the option nodev, no file system on /dev/sda1, the device node /dev/sda1 is already mounted, or the file system is not FAT12/16/32. Assuming the directory /mnt/drive is created, I suggest mount it using the following command.

mount -v -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/drive

If it still has problems, use a more recent Linux distribution because Redhat 9 is toooooooooooooo old.

Are you sure it is a USB Flash storage device because a memory card such as SD is a lot different than a USB Flash storage. The difference is that one is a card reader and the other uses USB. The latest kernel supports card readers using a separate module and they are designated differently when being listed under fdisk.

Using a phone as a storage device in Linux may not work.