[GRLUG] trouble mounting fat32 thumb drive

[Eric Beversluis]

Thanks, guys. Comes of not doing these things often enough. (Getting
spoiled by all the automation in fedora etc.)

On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 09:13 -0400, Kevin McCarthy wrote:
> > [root at clearos mnt]# mount -t vfat /dev/sde /mnt/thumb
> 
> 
> You have to mount the partiton, not the entire drive. Try:
> 
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/thumb
> 
> 
> 
> -Kevin
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Eric Beversluis
> <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
>         I've got a thumb drive formatted as FAT32. It mounts (albeit
>         slowly) and
>         works ok on  windows 7 boxes and mounts automatically on my
>         fedora 17
>         box. But when I try to mount it on a clearos box (based on
>         centos), it
>         won't mount: Tells me it "can't find a valid FAT files system
>         on dev
>         sde."
>         
>         Disk /dev/sde: 32.2 GB, 32191283200 bytes
>         255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3913 cylinders
>         Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>         Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>         I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>         Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18
>            Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>         /dev/sde1   *           1        3914    31436784    c  W95
>         FAT32 (LBA)
>         [root at clearos mnt]# mount -t vfat /dev/sde /mnt/thumb
>         mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde,
>                missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>                In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>                dmesg | tail  or so
>         
>         
>         
>         [root at clearos mnt]# dmesg | tail
>         sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] 62873600 512-byte logical blocks: (32.1
>         GB/29.9 GiB)
>         sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
>         sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
>         sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
>         sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
>          sde: sde1
>         sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
>         sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
>         FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
>         VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sde.
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