Re: USB Drives will not mount
On Tue 01 Nov 2011 at 05:12:06 +0000, Paddy Tollan wrote:
> Hi I can no longer mount my usb pen drive. When I run the mount vfat -t
> /dev/sdb /mnt/pen
It is more usual to mount a partition:
mount vfat -t /dev/sdbX /mnt/pen
> The commmand complains about there being a bad superblock
> on the usb drive. I run the dmesg command and get the message there is not a
> valid fat partition on /dev/sdb.
I expect the messages were quite precise. Seeing them exactly as you saw
them is never a bad thing.
> However there is a valid file system as the drive is formatted as fat32 and
> the drive is seen in windows I have tried another drive with the same result
Someone is bound to ask to see the partion table (fdisk, cfdisk) ......
> how can I fix this as it is very annoying. I have tried to reformat and
> partition the drive but this will not work
...... and ask for the commands you used which didn't work.
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