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UPDATE

The error is actually:

Error: or too many mounted filesystems.

2. Yes sudo fdisk works. sorry about that. Shows a normal Win95 Fat32 file system.

Quote (xheavenlyx @ Feb. 23 2007,08:04)

Ohmy, I am having the same problem and stumbles along this page. I will explain the problem in short n easy way:

1. I have a 256MB USB Pen drive. First time it worked perfectly. Mounting and dissmounting.

2. Screrwd it by installing linux on "sda" thinking it was my hard drive few months back. (First time user ^_^)

Did you install GRUB or LILO? What's in your pen's MBR now?

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3. This week Reformatted with windows XP as FAT32, works well in windows.

Did you do a right-click format device or a command from prompt? If you installed GRUB or LILO when you installed DSL (assuming you were using DSL), did you clear out the MBR before reformatting?

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4. In DSL Gets detected and displays as 'sda4' 'unmounted' at startup.

Now When I try to mount it I get the error

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"Error: or to many mounts to handle" (there is blank space b4 or)

It should be setting a point at sda1. Copy your "fdisk -l /dev/sda" here, please. (That's a lower-case L.)

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And yes I have no other mounts at the same time. My hda1 is being mounted perfectly. + I have installed DSL on my harddrive and am also inserting the usb pre-boot so hotplug can detect it.

Hotplug should also detect it and set a point when you're already booted. Have you tried that as well?

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(Another problem is I cant see the status on fdisk since it gives a error 'cannot access dev/hda1 & cannot access dev/sda4'. That I will look for in other posts.)

Try it without partition numbers: /dev/hda and /dev/sda.

Quote (xheavenlyx @ Feb. 23 2007,08:16)

UPDATE

The error is actually:

Error: or too many mounted filesystems.

Okay. Open a terminal. The line below will produce a hexdump of your MBR. Do you find GRUB (EDIT: or LILO) anywhere in it? It will be on the right side of the output (assuming you have the terminal wide enough) between the greater/less than signs down rightmost column.

dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/sda | od -Ax -tx1z -v

UPDATE (with a sorry for not being clear)

1. I have installed DSL on my HARD DRIVE hda2 with lilo, nothing to do with my pendrive. The only thing I do with it is to store my data. Pen's MBR is FAT32 from winXP cmd prompt format (more on this later, gets interesting)

2. I will get the dump later on, since I have no easy way of transferring the output to this PC (with windows to go online).

IMPORTANT OBSERVATION:

I have noticed I get the SAME error with CDrom. BUT different CD's can be easily mounted.

Example- DSL cd mount - no problems. 500MB Mp3 CD mount - Error

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Anyway, thats that and 'lucky13' that was a useful command. Though I could not run this part ---> "(pipe) od -Ax -tx1z -v" (will try other tech and informs soon)

AND if I put in sda4 instead of sda. I can see my PEN drive is FAT16 partitioned (I had redone it from FAT32 to FAT16 this afternoon).

NOW I will try romoving heavy files (mp3) from my USB and try running again. Since thats what happened with the CDrom. Heavy mp3CD did not work!

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Feb. 21 2007,20:21)

Just read your last post, so I'll add this here:

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But when I unplug it and than plug it back dsl reports same errors. I cannot mount it anymore.

Did you unmount and eject before unplugging?

Eject?
Afaik it's just the same as unmount but with cd/dvd etc it really ejects it physically too.

Anyway. I always unmount before unplugging.

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