install mandriva 2007, can't mount usb drive

[mifan]

Well, I tried updating 2006 from the net, but without luck, so I downloaded the 2007 dvd. but after selecting a fresh install (formatted the / directory, but left /home intact), this time I changed the security level to "higher" but now if I plug in the usb pen drive, it dosen't automount. how can I get the automount back?

[mifan]

Ok,

 

I got so far as adding

 

/dev/sda /mnt/usbdrive auto users 0 0

 

to the fstab,

 

but when I try to mount I get this error:

 

mount /dev/sda

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,

missing codepage or other error

In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

dmesg | tail or so

then running dmesg I get this:

FAT: invalid media value (0x01)

VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

FAT: invalid media value (0x01)

VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

 

this usbdrive works fine on windows and on mandriva 2006...

[neil-a1000]

This might seem like a silly question but have you installed autofs?

[ianw1974]

Shouldn't need autofs for this, it's mounting another way.

 

Are you sure it's FAT32 on this drive? Also, are you sure the system detects it as /dev/sda?

 

Try:

 

fdisk -l

 

when it's connected. This will list all disks, including your usb stick. Here's an example of mine:

 

[root@europa ian]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *		   1		 653	 5245191	7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2			 654		3648	24057337+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5			 654		3514	22980951   83  Linux
/dev/hda6			3515		3648	 1076323+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 1048 MB, 1048576000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 127 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1			   1		 127	 1020096	b  W95 FAT32

 

it's not automatically mounted either, but if I got into Devices on my desktop, and then double click and open it, it works fine. Then if I type mount, I get this:

 

[root@europa ian]# mount
/dev/hda5 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type ntfs (ro,umask=0,nls=utf8)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/removable type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=500,utf8,shortname=lower)

 

and this is the details from /etc/mtab:

 

[root@europa ian]# cat /etc/mtab
/dev/hda5 / reiserfs rw,noatime,notail 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0,nls=utf8 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/removable vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=500,utf8,shortname=lower 0 0

 

see the line I have. Add this to /etc/fstab, or do the same process as what I've just done, and do the same, and it'll work for you, as you're mount entries and mtab entry might be different to mine.