Re: Making Debian mount USB storage device

From: Gerald Willmann (gerald_at_email.uni-kiel.de)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:29:38 +0200

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Mike Oliver wrote:

> It won't let me mount with "-t auto" or "-t autofs". On the other hand
>
> mount -t usbfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable
>
> executes without complaint, but what I then see in
> /mnt/removable is not very enlightening. It
> has a file called "devices" and a directory called
> "001", which contains three short files called
> "001", "002" and "003".

usbfs is something completely different similar to proc
man mount tells you
       -t vfstype
              The argument following the -t is used to indicate
              the file system type. The file system types which
              are currently supported are: adfs, affs, autofs,
              coda, coherent, cramfs, devpts, efs, ext, ext2,
              ext3, hfs, hpfs, iso9660, jfs, minix, msdos, ncpfs,
              nfs, ntfs, proc, qnx4, ramfs, reiserfs, romfs,
              smbfs, sysv, tmpfs, udf, ufs, umsdos, vfat, xenix,
              xfs, xiafs. Note that coherent, sysv and xenix are
              equivalent and that xenix and coherent will be
              removed at some point in the future -- use sysv
              instead. Since kernel version 2.1.21 the types ext
              and xiafs do not exist anymore.

try msdos or do a google search for mount memory stick and you should find
the appropriate mount command and then do put a line in fstab so you don't
have to remember it (like me :)
                                        Gerald

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