[GRLUG] trouble mounting fat32 thumb drive

[Kevin McCarthy]

> [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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