Re: Problems mounting USB flash drive

[Bruno Buys <brunobuys@gmail.com>]

Carl Fink wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:48:06AM -0200, aleardo@ibilce.unesp.br wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to mount a USB flash drive (Sandisk MiniCruzer, 256M)
> > in a Debian box (kernel 2.4.26-1-686) and get a
> >
> > "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device"
> >    
>
> What makes you think it's sda?  In another xterm, run "tail -f
> /var/log/messages" before plugging in the flash drive, and see where it
> actually mounts.
>  
Also, it can be only 'sda', instead of sda1. No partitions.