Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Samuel Bächler wrote:
> # tail -f /var/log/syslog
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: SCSI device sdb: 249120 512-byte hdwr 
> sectors (128 MB)
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel:  sdb: sdb1
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable 
> disk sdb
> Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
>
> # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Is the vfat module loaded? You might want to check the filesystem type 
with "file -s /dev/sdb1". Also are you able to access the files on any 
other system? If the data on the usb drive is not important, then try 
formatting it. "mkdosfs /dev/sdb1" will create a fat16 filesystem while 
mke2fs will create an ext2 partition.

Raj Kiran