vfat not recognized in Debian?
I've been attempting to get my USB flash drive working with my Debian 3.1 box. Everything seems good until I mount it. The flash drive appears in the output from dmesg and lsusb. When I attempt to mount it with 'mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb-flash' I get 'mount: unrecognized filesystem vfat'
I know I've used 'mount -t vfat ...' with zip disks on my PowerBook running YDL. Does anyone know why Debian isn't working with vfat by default? Is this something I have to enble in the kernel (I'm using one of the precompiled ones from the Debian installer)? |
Is it possible that the flash drive is not formatted as FAT32 (or FAT16)?
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It's formatted as FAT16. I checked when I was using it with Mac OS X.
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Hm. I don't know what the deal is. You can check out this thread--apparently the OP found a solution, but I can't figure out what it is.
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are you using a stock kernel? It may be that vfat isn't supported by your kernel. You may need to add a module or something. Other than that...I don't know
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I had the exact same problem and it turned out the entry in the fstab file was NOT in sync with what dmesg said about the drive..
fstab said /dev/sdb dmesg identified it as /dev/sdb1 after I changed fstab to sdb1, the problem when away.. This two cents worth contributed by.. Mr Mike, Houston, Tx |
Thanks for the help everyone. It appears that the stock kernel only has support for isofs. I'll probably recompile the kernel tonight or tomorrow with support for at least a few more filesystems (like vfat and hfsplus).
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