On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:31:37AM +0800, HaJo Schatz wrote:
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 02:23, Moi wrote:
> Just try to mount USB key 256M on my FC2 box.
> gives me the error:
>
> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
> But when I try:
> # mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbkey (yes, /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1)
> it works !
> Any explanations ?
This is well known. The key is formatted as a floppy, not as a hard
drive. You can change this by creating a primary partition on it (fdisk
/dev/sda) and format it as vfat. WIN will still be able to access it,
and Linux will have an wasier time with it.
See
http://www.marlow.dk/tech/usbkeys.php
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