A little issue with mount...

**Javasnob** · 10-03-2005

So I was mounting my USB drive, and the following came up:

Code:

$ mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /usbdrive/
mount&#58; special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

So I went to /dev, and no sd* devices were there...What gives? Is this because I recently upgraded my kernel?

Thanks for the help!

**ericrun** · 10-03-2005

I don't know why they'd be missing, but you should be able to use the MAKEDEV command to recreate any that you need. I think running

Code:

/dev/MAKEDEV /dev/sda

should do the trick.

**Javasnob** · 10-03-2005

This is the output I got from that:

Code:

root@Rob&#58;/dev# ./MAKEDEV /dev/sda
./MAKEDEV&#58; don't know how to make device "/dev/sda"

Do I need some sort of special modules loaded to do this?

**burnit** · 10-04-2005

Code:

cd /dev
MAKEDEV sda

See the man page of MAKEDEV for further informations.

Then, when you attach the USB drive, see the dmesg output (as root). You will see messages about your USB drive. The messages specify wich device you should mount to use that USB drive.

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