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adssse

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Posted: May 11 2005,00:27

hmm... I used

mount /dev/sda

this worked fine, than i used

umount /mnt/sda

I then unplugged it and inserted it again. I tried the same as before, but got the following error

mount: can't find /dev/sda in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Like a said it always seems to work the first time but than will not work again until I reboot. Any help would be appreciated.

ke4nt1

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Posted: May 11 2005,00:33

adssse,

On each one of your posts, you are using the syntax

mount /dev/sda
or
umount /dev/sda

but, as shown in Saidin's example, there are partitions to account for
on a pendrive. You would USUALLY type..

mount /dev/sdaX
or
umount /dev/sdaX

the X = the partition on your drive .. e.g. sda1 , sda2, etc..

You can check by using the syntax

cfdisk /dev/sda ( no X or number ) ,
which should show you the partition table on the drive.

It IS possible to have no partitions on it, but it is uncommon...

Please check and feedback..

73
ke4nt

adssse

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Posted: May 11 2005,03:54

ke4nt1, thanks for your reply. I used

cfdisk /dev/sda

but received the following error:

FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive
Press any key to exit cfdisk

I apologize because I must be missing something. I know the pendrive is good because I have been using it on my windows machine and at school without any problems. I have also tried another drive with dsl with the same results. Is there anything that dsl requires of this pendrive that windows wouldn't?? I am fairly new and I am still trying to learn how to get everything working.

cbagger01

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Posted: May 11 2005,11:16

Try:

sudo cfdisk /dev/sda

adssse

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Posted: May 11 2005,13:36

ok, I tried

sudo cfdisk /dev/sda

and got the following error:

ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition begins after end-of-disk
Press any key to exit cfdisk

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