Hi there, On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, J. Wren Hunt wrote:
> [snip] > If I attempt to mount the device via: > # mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/flash > I receive the error message: > mount: mount point /mnt/flash does not exist > [snip] > What silly thing am I overlooking? You're overlooking that silly error message you just sent to us. :) It says that the mount point doesn't exist. Try to create it with # mkdir /mnt/flash then try your mount command again. A mount point is just a directory, it doesn't *have* to be empty but I'd strongly advise you not to mess around with mount and non-empty directories until you really know what you're doing. Probably not even then. You could also try $ man mount which would tell you more than you thought you'd ever wanted to know about the 'mount' command. I don't know if the correct mount command for your system will contain /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 or something else. It depends on what the SCSI system did, and whether or not you have any partitions on the flash device. There's nothing magic about the name of the mount point (directory). I often call my temporary mount points something which resembles the partition name, for example I have this on my desktop machine: hurricane:~$ >>> mount /dev/hda1 on / type reiserfs (rw) /dev/hda2 on /usr type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda5 on /opt type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /home type ext2 (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) proc on /proc type proc (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/hdb2 on /mnt/hdb2 type ext2 (rw) As you can see I have no USB devices connected at the moment (that's because at the moment I'm using kernel 2.4.22 and it would probably crash if I tried...) but I have one partition of a demountable hard disc mounted on /mnt/hdb2. 73, Ged. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN's Audience Survey. Help shape OSDN's sites and tell us what you think. Take this five minute survey and you could win a $250 Gift Certificate. http://www.wrgsurveys.com/2003/osdntech03.php?site=8 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
