Thank you for the reply, Ian. The directories exist and are empty: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ cd /media [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media$ ls -l total 12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-04-24 17:32 cdrom -> cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-04-24 17:32 cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-05-16 14:25 sda1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-17 11:01 winxp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media$ ls cdrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media$ ls cdrom0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media$ ls sda1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media$ ls winxp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media$
I use winxp to mount my (hum) Windows partition, sda1 for the usb stick and cdrom for the cd. Here is what happens: alien:/media# mount /media/winxp/ alien:/media# mount /media/sda1 mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist I have 3 usb ports of my laptop. If I move the usb stick to another port, I can mount it (don't know why, I had noticed this before though). Could this be the source of the message? alien:/media# mount /media/sda1 (usb stick in other port) alien:/media# mount /media/cdrom alien:/media# No error messages. /dev/sda1 does not exist prior to inserting the usb stick, but then again, that entry in /etc/fstab says 'noauto'... It might just be a glitch somewhere as nothing seems wrong as far as I can tell. Thanks much for any help. Dominique On 10/19/05, Ian Greenhoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:12 -0400, Dominique Orban wrote: > > Hello, > > Hi! > > <snip> > > > My /etc/fstab is as > > follows (and this is how it was also before the upgrade): > > > > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > 1 > > /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 > > /dev/hda1 /media/winxp ntfs ro,user,noauto,umask=000 0 > 0 > > /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 > > /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 vfat rw,users,noauto 0 0 > > > > and the output of "mount" is > > > > /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) > > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > > tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755) > > Do the directories /media , /media/winxp , /media/cdrom0 , > and /media/sda1 exist? In order to mount something the directory onto > which it is mounted must exist. The mount point (directory onto which a > filesystem is mounted) *should* also be empty prior to mounting, but > that will not cause an error. > > Also, try running the mount command for your mount points that weren't > mounted and tell us what error you get (if any). e.g.: > > mount /media/winxp > > etc. > > -Ian > >
