On Tue 01 Nov 2011 at 05:12:06 +0000, Paddy Tollan wrote: > Hi I can no longer mount my usb pen drive. When I run the mount vfat -t > /dev/sdb /mnt/pen
It is more usual to mount a partition: mount vfat -t /dev/sdbX /mnt/pen > The commmand complains about there being a bad superblock > on the usb drive. I run the dmesg command and get the message there is not a > valid fat partition on /dev/sdb. I expect the messages were quite precise. Seeing them exactly as you saw them is never a bad thing. > However there is a valid file system as the drive is formatted as fat32 and > the drive is seen in windows I have tried another drive with the same result Someone is bound to ask to see the partion table (fdisk, cfdisk) ...... > how can I fix this as it is very annoying. I have tried to reformat and > partition the drive but this will not work ...... and ask for the commands you used which didn't work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111101102159.GK21970@desktop