Re: [Dorset] Problem Mounting Memory Stick on Raspberry Pi

2021-11-29 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 28 November 2021 13:30:44 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > pi@minster-music:~ $ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb/ -o uid=pi,gid=pi > mount: /media/usb: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error. > > As you can see, the Pi

Re: [Dorset] Problem Mounting Memory Stick on Raspberry Pi

2021-11-29 Thread Keith Edmunds
> $ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb/ -o uid=pi,gid=pi Tell it the filesystem type (-t ext2) and then check in dmesg to see what it doesn't like. Maybe your pi doesn't support ext2? -- Great music, chat and even some wit. Join me every Friday evening at 8pm for Keith's Music Box: Follow:

Re: [Dorset] Problem Mounting Memory Stick on Raspberry Pi

2021-11-28 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 28 November 2021 14:53:46 GMT Bob Dunlop wrote: > Try adding "-t ext2" to override the default mount may be picking up > from /etc/fstab ? Actually, I think thayt might have been a red herring. No ext2 filesysrems are defined in fstab: pi@minster-music:/etc $ cat fstab proc

Re: [Dorset] Problem Mounting Memory Stick on Raspberry Pi

2021-11-28 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 28 November 2021 14:53:46 GMT Bob Dunlop wrote: > Try adding "-t ext2" to override the default mount may be picking up > from /etc/fstab ? Well according to the man page that should do something legal: sudo mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /media/usb/ -o uid=pi,gid=pi but I get the same

Re: [Dorset] Problem Mounting Memory Stick on Raspberry Pi

2021-11-28 Thread Andrew
On 28/11/2021 13:30, Terry Coles wrote: pi@minster-music:~ $ sudo mount/dev/sda1 /media/usb/ -o uid=pi,gid=pi Is it because the uid and gid options don't apply to EXT2? -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-12-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing

[Dorset] Problem Mounting Memory Stick on Raspberry Pi

2021-11-28 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, I've been trying to back up a Pi installation using a tool called image-utils (written by a contributor to the Pi Forums). This tool backs up the running system and writes the image to a specified destination. I've used it many times before but I recently had an issue because my image