Verify that the default behavior in Slackware works before adding your customizations. Instead of jumping to the fstab line and creating a new folder, try the following command, as root.
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/hd /mnt/hd is part of a default slackware installation, I use for quick manual mounts to avoid issues that can arise with bad permissions. It will be an emptry direction unless you put something in there. If running the above mount command works, then you know your fstab configuration is faulty. If it fails, then there is either a problem with your Slackware install or a hardware driver. Also, and I learned this just now, /proc/filesystems has a list of available filesystems for the -t option, according to 'man mount'. On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 6:13 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, wes wrote: > > > Normally, only the superuser ("root" on many unix-like operating systems) > > can mount a new filesystem. This is not required on your older system > > because you've specified the "users" option in the related fstab entry. > > Wes, > > The fstab entries on both systems are the same: auto,users.rw. > > > This is the expected behavior when the mount utility is unable to > identify > > what it's mounting. Normally, if you don't specify the filesystem type, > it > > tries to detect it for you. If you do specify the type, and the actual > > type on the storage device is not the same as what you specified, you'll > > get the same error. > > True. But what I want to understand is why the source system understands > that both problem flash drives have a vfat file system while the target > system doesn't. > > > You may want to try using the "file" and "fdisk" utilities on the device > > paths to see what may actually be there. > > Will do so tomorrow. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
