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[Richard Carlson <>]

Hi Clarke;

I'm going through my email so this may have been answered already.  Try this.

sudo mkdir /media/sda1
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1

Ofcourse you can make the mount point anywhere.  The other option is to 
boot the system with the USB drive attached.  That should create the 
/etc/fstab entry.

Any pointers to making automount work properly would be greatly 
appreciated.  .-)

Rich
At 04:04 PM 8/25/2006, Clarke Morledge wrote:
> 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
>
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