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[Clarke Morledge <>]

Scott/Richard,

I got the same thing here:

sudo mount /dev/sda1
mount: can't find /UNIONFS/dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

This is with an IBM T20 ThinkPad.

Clarke Morledge
College of William and Mary
Information Technology - Network Engineering
Jones Hall (Room 18)
Williamsburg VA 23187

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Scott Fringer wrote:

> Rich;
>  I can't mount the USB drive at all.
>  I have the USB stick installed prior to booting the system; does not
> appear to be detected.
>  When I issue the sudo mount /dev/sda1 <mount point>, it returns:
>
> mount: can't find /UNIONFS/dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
>
>  Never during any process do I see the activity light on the USB drive
> flicker.
>  I've verified USB is enabled in the BIOS; and the stick works fine on
> another system.
>  I'll admit here, now, that this is the first time I've ever attempted
> to mount a USB drive under Linux.
>
> Scott
>
> Richard Carlson wrote:
> > Hi Scott;
> >
> > Does this mean the automount system failed or you could not manually
> > mount the drive?  I don't have the automounter system properly
> > configured so automounting fails (any help on this would be appreciated).
> >
> > Did you check the messages file, or dmesg, to see if the system detected
> > the drive being inserted?  Can you manually create a mount point and
> > then mount the drive?
> >
> > It does work slightly better if the USB stick is installed before the
> > boot process begins.  In this case the mount point is created and added
> > to the /etc/fstab file  It still requires that you manually mount the
> > disk, but you don't need to create the mount point.
> >
> > Rich