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Re: [LUG] Debian v BusBi Memstick

 

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:59:41 +0100
David Bell wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 August 2005 21:41, David Johnson wrote:
> 
> >
> > Try just sda rather than sda1. Some drives are a bit funny...
> 
> Same error message and dmesg output using sda.
> Have also tried making an entry in fstab but get an error message.
> 

I always find using "fdisk -l" (lowercase L, run as root) to be a handy diagnostic 
tool... it tells you what filesystems are present on the devices.  You may need to 
explicitly tell it the device: fdisk -l /dev/sda

Grant.
-- 
Unix:  Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once.

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