USB 'disk drives'

[Dan Coutu]

geoff allsup wrote:

> Hi Dan
> 
> The drive should be something like /dev/sda1 (not sda);  my USB pen 
> drive is set up as 'auto' in my fstab, and mounts as 'vfat' out of the box.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> geoff
> 
> 

That was it! I could have sworn that I previously had no /dev/sda1 device, 

maybe I wasn't paying enough attention. Anyway, once I used /dev/sda1 instead

of /dev/sda it mounted like a charm without me having to specify the 
filesystem type.

Thanks!
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