[plug] Having trouble mounting external usb drive

[Russell Steicke]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:48:40AM +0800, Open Source.Lives wrote:
...
> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> Did list the filesystem, but when I try to mount it using -t ntfs or vfat it
> still gave me the same error, I have tried -t usbfs, where it mounted it but
> it displayed incorrect files...

Could you please paste in the actual output from "fdisk -l /dev/sda".

When you try the mount, are you typing

  mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/usb_disk

or

  mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usb_disk





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Russell Steicke

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