On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, J F wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /usb
> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /usb
> mount: /dev/sda2 is not a valid block device
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# ls -ld /usb
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 28 19:47 /usb
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /usb
> mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device

Are you sure it's attached to sda? Try:

fdisk -l /dev/sda
fdisk -l /dev/sdb
fdisk -l /dev/sdc
fdisk -l /dev/sdd

etc. to figure out which has a filesystem.

ap



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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu




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