Other Help Topics :: Mounting Pen Drive

hmm... I used

mount /dev/sda

this worked fine, than i used

umount /mnt/sda

I then unplugged it and inserted it again. I tried the same as before, but got the following error

mount: can't find /dev/sda in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Like a said it always seems to work the first time but than will not work again until I reboot. Any help would be appreciated.

adssse,

On each one of your posts, you are using the syntax

mount /dev/sda
or
umount /dev/sda

but, as shown in Saidin's example, there are partitions to account for
on a pendrive. You would USUALLY type..

mount /dev/sdaX
or
umount /dev/sdaX

the X = the partition on your drive .. e.g. sda1 , sda2, etc..

You can check by using the syntax

cfdisk /dev/sda ( no X or number ) ,
which should show you the partition table on the drive.

It IS possible to have no partitions on it, but it is uncommon...

Please check and feedback..

73
ke4nt

ke4nt1, thanks for your reply. I used

cfdisk /dev/sda

but received the following error:

FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive
Press any key to exit cfdisk

I apologize because I must be missing something. I know the pendrive is good because I have been using it on my windows machine and at school without any problems. I have also tried another drive with dsl with the same results. Is there anything that dsl requires of this pendrive that windows wouldn't?? I am fairly new and I am still trying to learn how to get everything working.

Try:

sudo cfdisk /dev/sda

ok, I tried

sudo cfdisk /dev/sda

and got the following error:

ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition begins after end-of-disk
Press any key to exit cfdisk

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