On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, wes wrote:
Normally, only the superuser ("root" on many unix-like operating systems)
can mount a new filesystem. This is not required on your older system
because you've specified the "users" option in the related fstab entry.
Wes,
The fstab entries on both systems are the same: auto,users.rw.
This is the expected behavior when the mount utility is unable to identify
what it's mounting. Normally, if you don't specify the filesystem type, it
tries to detect it for you. If you do specify the type, and the actual
type on the storage device is not the same as what you specified, you'll
get the same error.
True. But what I want to understand is why the source system understands
that both problem flash drives have a vfat file system while the target
system doesn't.
You may want to try using the "file" and "fdisk" utilities on the device
paths to see what may actually be there.
Will do so tomorrow.
Rich
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