[solved] mount usb mp3-player

[uggla]

Hi!

I have an usb mp3-player that won't show up in fstab when doing sudo rebuildfstab. It shows up as /dev/sdb: UUID="68DE-5DE7" TYPE="vfat" when doing blkid. When doing sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/sdb i get "failed: Invalid argument". How can I mount it?

regards
/Uggla

[tinypoodle]

Does it show in

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fdisk -l
?

[uggla]

Yes

Disk /dev/sdb: 4072 MB, 4072669184 bytes
126 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7812 * 512 = 3999744 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System

/Uggla

[tinypoodle]

Blind guessing, but it couldnt harm to do a fsck (dosfstools-*.tcz required)

Also you could try to specify fs with mount, e.g. -t vfat

[gerald_clark]

It isn't in fstab because it isn't partitioned.
Just:
mkdir /mnt/work
mount /dev/sdb /mnt/work

[uggla]

Specifying the fs (vfat) solved it. Thanks!

/Uggla

[tinypoodle]

In this case I would still do a fsck. Better safe than sorry.

[uggla]

I got this:

tc@box:~$ fsck /dev/sdb
fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
fsck: fsck.vfat: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.vfat for /dev/sdb

what does that say?

[tinypoodle]

try

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dosfsck -vrf /dev/sdb
unmounted!

[uggla]

I got:

tc@box:~$ dosfsck -vrf /dev/sdb
dosfsck 3.0.3 (18 May 2009)
dosfsck 3.0.3, 18 May 2009, FAT32, LFN
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
Boot sector contents:
System ID "MSDOS5.0"
Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
       512 bytes per logical sector
     16384 bytes per cluster
        32 reserved sectors
First FAT starts at byte 16384 (sector 32)
         2 FATs, 32 bit entries
   1007616 bytes per FAT (= 1968 sectors)
Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size)
Data area starts at byte 2031616 (sector 3968)
    248452 data clusters (4070637568 bytes)
63 sectors/track, 255 heads
         0 hidden sectors
   7954432 sectors total
Reclaiming unconnected clusters.
Checking free cluster summary.
/dev/sdb: 135 files, 217847/248452 clusters

Then it's safe to use mount -t vfat?

/Uggla

[tinypoodle]

Yeah, I couldn't see anything wrong.