Re: VFAT: Very stupid question
Ubuntu (amd64) automatically detects and mounts a USB stick, and even
puts it on the desktop for you. This feature highly impressed me,
good evidence for linux being as easy, or easier, than windows.
Ross
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:25:27 +0200, Harald Dunkel
<harald.dunkel@t-online.de> wrote:
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> |>To verify the FAT filesystem on your machine you could
> |>create a filesystem in an image file, e.g.:
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> | I just tried this test method, and the same error message appears. Damn. I there a debug level I
> | could switch somewhere ?
> |
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> You could explicitely set the filesystem type for mount:
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> mount -o loop -t vfat ${FLASH_IMG} /mnt
>
> Syslog error messages go to some files in /var/log by
> default.
>
> For testing I have created a partition table and a vfat
> filesystem on my USB stick: No problem. But this was kernel
> 2.6.9.
>
> Since 2.6.9 was released some days ago, you might want to
> try the new kernel? (BTW, don't set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB,
> which was introduced for 2.6.9.)
>
> Good luck
>
> Harri
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