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When I plug in my USB on Etch, I get this error from Konqueror after clicking "Open files in file manager". mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on ...
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    USB mount problem

    When I plug in my USB on Etch, I get this error from Konqueror after clicking "Open files in file manager".

    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
    I run dmesg | tail and I get this:
    Code:
    debian:/home/uholtz# dmesg | tail
    sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
    SCSI device sdc: 1003520 512-byte hdwr sectors (514 MB)
    sdc: Write Protect is off
    sdc: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
    sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
     sdc: sdc1
    sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
    sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
    usb-storage: device scan complete
    FAT: Unrecognized mount option "flush" or missing value
    When I mount the drive manually with mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /media/STICK, it works but then my normal user (uholtz) doesn't have write access to it. I don't know why it's doing this because I make sure I unmount it every time (via Konqueror) when I'm about to remove it.

    Any help?

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    mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /media/STICK
    Pass defaults,umask=0 parameters to mount command.
    Code:
     mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /media/STICK -o defaults,umask=0
    FAT: Unrecognised mount option "flush" or missing value
    Check the contents of /etc/fstab file.
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    Whether I mount it my way or with your extra parameters it doesn't matter, both work but I don't want to have to mount it manually every time. It used to work that's what's bugging me. Also, I notice that when I mount it manually the auto-mount works. Hard to explain but what I mean is, it usually tries to mount it on a temporary location at /media/sdc1, which doesn't work when I plug it in so I mount it manually on /media/STICK, then only root can write to /media/STICK but once it's mounted there /media/sdc1 works and all users can write to that, as if it auto-mounted like it should. I can't unmount it via konqueror anymore because it complains it can't read hal mtab or something of such sort. There's nothing about sdc... etc. in fstab.

    Thanks.

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    check the contents of /etc/mtab file.
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    I did that but it doesn't have anything that is related to sdc1 in there...I don't know, I wonder if it could be a udev problem.

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