Re: Problem with USB storage device - video glasses

[Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

> > > > > > Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> writes:
>
> […]
>
> > sdb: unknown partition table
>
> 	What's the result of the following command?
>
> $ file -s /dev/sdb

"
file -s /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb: data
"


> 	Is it possible to mount /dev/sdb manually?  E. g.:
>
> $ sudo mount -v /dev/sdb /mnt/
>
> 	What are the messages displayed by the command above?

sudo doesn't work on this one (Yay!)

using su - root (which is my preference) gives

"
mount -v /dev/sdb /mnt/
mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sdb
       I will try type vfat
/dev/sdb on /mnt type vfat (rw)
"

Mounting manually, using that, worked.

Thanks for that.

I do not understand why it was not automatically mounted, like the other 
USB devices that I mentioned in the previous message.


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