mount system call is failing.
 

Hi,

I am facing problem while using mount() system call in my ubuntu 8.10 PC. Within my application, I am calling the mount call to mount a USB device to a specific directory, like this:
mount("/dev/sdb", "/media/myusb/", "ext3", MS_RDONLY, 0))
But every time I am getting the errors either "EBUSY" or "EINVAL". I changed the mount flag options also, but the error remains.
Instead if I use this command line option "mount /dev/sdb /media/myusb/", it works fine.

Could you please tell me what error I have made? Any help is appreciated.

Regards,
Deb

I am not sure but you can start checking maybe there: 0))?
is that a typo or is part of the syntax?

also check if the data type you are entering is correct...

Hi All,

This is solved, I use mount(("/dev/sdb", "/media/myusb/", "vfat", MS_SYNCHRONOUS, 0)) and it is working now. So instead of "ext3" using "vfat" solved the problem.

Regards,
Deb