[SOLVED] SuSE 11 -t codes supported for mount command

[N5SBP]

Tried to mount a thumb drive and the mount cmd insisted I supply a -t value. How does one know what the type is and what types are supported by SuSE?

I tried some FATxx codes and EXT2 and EXT3 but then ran out of quesses.

thx
Jim


BTW this is a USB "stick" or "thumb" drive.
The man mount says you have to check your kernel to know the types for sure.
I tried ramfs no joy. I tried usbfs. I tried others...at one point I thought something mounted but a ls cmd showed a really strange directory list (numbers 001 - 007 etc).
ANother thread says just go to /media and it will already be there - no joy.

[devils casper]

Plug-in USB Stick and execute this

tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages
su -
fdisk -l

Post output here.

[daark.child]

Most thumb drives are FAT32, but the module is called vfat, so to mount it, you would do "mount -t vfat /dev/sdX". You can run "fdisk -l" or "parted -l" to look at the partition types on devices.

[N5SBP]

Thanks - the fdisk and parted commands showed me I should be mounting a device called SDC1 NOT SDC. And yes the VFAT worked fine.