[plug] Having trouble mounting external usb drive

[Adam Davin]

Hello,

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:44:33 +0800
Nikhil Jogia <plug at nikhiljogia.com> wrote:

> Open Source.Lives wrote:

<snip diagnostic messages> 

> >
> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/usb_drive
> >
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
> >        missing codepage or other error
> >        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >        dmesg | tail  or so
> >
> > Can someone shed some light into this.
> >

You could try explicitly loading the vfat module if it is not already
compiled into the kernel.

ummm.. something that just comes to mind.. usually sda points to the
drive itself, not the partitions. You might want to try:

# fdisk -l /dev/sda 

This will list the partitions available on the drive. It might be that
you are trying to mount the drive itself rather than the partitions.

Hope this helps, 

Regards, 

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