[clug] A "mount" defeat - was Re: Persuading Debian to talk to an Android tablet via USB?

Brett Worth brett at worth.id.au
Thu Oct 21 01:08:02 MDT 2010


On 10/21/2010 05:45 PM, Felix Karpfen wrote:
> Same error message when I try to mount the SD-Card reader via a 
> computer's USB-port:
> 
> [felixk@ ~]$ mount /mnt/memstick/
> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified.
> 
> The relevant entry in /etc/fstab currently reads:
> 
> "/dev/sda1       /mnt/memstick   auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0"

Maybe there's no partition table in which case this should read sda not sda1.  Also it's a
bit weird that it's an sda device unless...  no its just weird.

You could try plugging it in then doing an dmesg to see if there's device names being
reported.

Brett
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