Package: base Severity: normal Tags: d-i
When I tried to mount a usb stick with FAT32 filesyste as below $ mount -t vfat /dev/sdf1 /mnt/stick It couldn't mount complaing unknown filetye error. Below is the syslog content. Aug 8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.076126] usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 Aug 8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214701] usb 3-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0ea0, idProduct=2168 Aug 8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214709] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Aug 8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214716] usb 3-4: Product: XTICK Aug 8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214720] usb 3-4: Manufacturer: LG Aug 8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214725] usb 3-4: SerialNumber: 8CB1E142201FFFDA Aug 8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214980] usb 3-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Aug 8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.216243] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Aug 8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.216778] usb-storage: device found at 2 Aug 8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.216783] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Aug 8 19:33:01 theblue kernel: [ 8074.217248] usb-storage: device scan complete Aug 8 19:33:01 theblue kernel: [ 8074.219199] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access LG XTICK 2.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 Aug 8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.340837] ready Aug 8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.341454] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] 1024000 512-byte logical blocks: (524 MB/500 MiB) Aug 8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.342190] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off Aug 8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.342197] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 Aug 8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.342203] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through Aug 8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.347680] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through Aug 8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.347692] sdf: Aug 8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.351171] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through Aug 8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.351184] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk Aug 8 19:52:37 theblue kernel: [ 9250.308725] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! Aug 8 19:52:37 theblue kernel: [ 9250.309689] FAT: invalid media value (0x20) Aug 8 19:52:37 theblue kernel: [ 9250.309695] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdf1. Aug 8 19:54:36 theblue kernel: [ 9369.245701] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! Aug 8 19:54:36 theblue kernel: [ 9369.246670] FAT: invalid media value (0x20) Aug 8 19:54:36 theblue kernel: [ 9369.246676] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdf1. Aug 8 19:55:03 theblue kernel: [ 9396.912745] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! Aug 8 19:55:03 theblue kernel: [ 9396.913569] FAT: invalid media value (0x20) Aug 8 19:55:03 theblue kernel: [ 9396.913575] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdf1. Aug 8 20:17:01 theblue /USR/SBIN/CRON[8717]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Aug 8 20:19:39 theblue kernel: [10872.444867] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! Aug 8 20:19:39 theblue kernel: [10872.445813] FAT: invalid media value (0x20) So I formated the usb stick with ntfs and tested again. $ mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt/stick This time it recoginizes ntfs without -t option. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org