RE: can't mount USB flash memory key (solved)

[Stefan Kluth <skluth@mppmu.mpg.de>]

Hello All,

the trick is to use brute force and replace the silly partition table of
the USB flash drive by a sane one with cfdisk.  I simply created a single
primary FAT32 partition (0b), then walked to a WinXP machine to have it
formatted.  Incidentally, is there a way to format (initialise) FAT32 on a
linux system?

Anyway, here is the sane partiton table:

$ fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 8 heads, 62 sectors, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 496 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1      1024    253921    b  Win95 FAT32

I can now mount using this /etc/fstab entry:

/dev/sda1       /usbstick       auto    defaults,user,noauto 0 0

Cheers, Stefan

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