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LeeM
February 24th, 2012, 09:34 PM
Hi!

I'm baffled. Just loaded 11.10 (after blowing away 11.10 by mistake!. I installed 11.10 with Gnome3 (from Linux Format DVD). When I try to mount a USB stick, I got an error message "Error mounting mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'". WHOA! Never seen that before. Any idea where to look?

TIA.

roelforg
February 24th, 2012, 09:35 PM
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dosfstools

LeeM
February 24th, 2012, 10:18 PM
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dosfstools


Did that. It says dosfstools is already the newest version.
I get same error message as previous when trying to mount thumbdrive.

hairyharry7
March 31st, 2012, 06:30 PM
EXACT same thing happens to me...

i have a shared partition on a dual boot that is formatted as fat32. on start up it says it can't mount the shared drive and i have to say to skip it. once i log in i try to mount the drive using gparted and i get the same error message. anybody have any ideas about this???

thanks