<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> [root@clearos mnt]# mount -t vfat /dev/sde /mnt/thumb</span><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>
</span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">You have to mount the partiton, not the entire drive. Try:</span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>
</span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/thumb</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">-Kevin</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Eric Beversluis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org" target="_blank">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've got a thumb drive formatted as FAT32. It mounts (albeit slowly) and<br>
works ok on windows 7 boxes and mounts automatically on my fedora 17<br>
box. But when I try to mount it on a clearos box (based on centos), it<br>
won't mount: Tells me it "can't find a valid FAT files system on dev<br>
sde."<br>
<br>
Disk /dev/sde: 32.2 GB, 32191283200 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3913 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18<br>
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/sde1 * 1 3914 31436784 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)<br>
[root@clearos mnt]# mount -t vfat /dev/sde /mnt/thumb<br>
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde,<br>
missing codepage or helper program, or other error<br>
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try<br>
dmesg | tail or so<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
[root@clearos mnt]# dmesg | tail<br>
sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] 62873600 512-byte logical blocks: (32.1 GB/29.9 GiB)<br>
sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off<br>
sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00<br>
sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through<br>
sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through<br>
sde: sde1<br>
sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through<br>
sd 9:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk<br>
FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)<br>
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sde.<br>
<br>
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