On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:18 pm, Sharrea wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:09, robin wrote:
> > Jerry Barton wrote:
> > > you may need to modprobe usb-storage (i have to for my digital camera
> > > since the memory card on it is seen as usb mass storage device). I
> > > don't know much about digital video cameras so i'm not sure if that's
> > > how it'll be recognized. also look in mandrake control center's
> > > hardware / hardware list and see if you can see it listed there
> > > (possibly under other/unknown) and see if there's any info about it.
> > > then you need to find out what the /dev entry is (i don't remember for
> > > the life of me where i've seen how and haven't added hardware in so
> > > long i forgot)
> > >
> > > Anyone? how DO you know what /dev entry hardware uses?
> > >
> > > not sure what kind of filesystem it'd use but i'd venture a guess that
> > > it's vfat if it's a mass storage device that windoze reads.
> > >
> > > now for my camera i'd (as root)
> > >
> > > mkdir /mnt/camera
> > > modprobe usb-storage
> > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
> >
> > Mounting with -t vfat doesn't work ("mount: wrong fs type, bad option,
> > badsuperblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems") and -t
> > auto sulks and asks me to specify the file type (same result as when I
> > tried John's solution). It ain't msdos either - any ideas?
> >
> > Sir Robin
>
> I may be way outta line here but:
> if /mnt is not a separate partition, but on your / partition, wouldn't you
> have to mount using the filesystem that your / partition is (ie. ext2, ext3
> or whatever)?
>
> I would think that to use vfat you would have to make the mountpoint on a
> partition that is formatted vfat.
>
> Just a thought...
>
> Sharrea
ahhh, the mount point is not formated, the partition is formated if it is a
"block device" (a drive) but there is no formating the /dev or /proc (etc)
partitions. the mount point tells the OS what filesystem module (?driver? for
win-types) the kernel should use to read the filesystem.
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