unable to mount usb stick

[Jouke S]

I formatted my usb stick to nfts to fit files larger than 4gb (fat32 won't support it) and now I'm unable to mount it.
The drive is visible through Nautilus and GParted but I can't mount it there and the terminal command 'mount /dev/sdh1'
returns 'mount: can't find /dev/sdh1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab'


formatting it to other file systems doesn't do anything
drive information:

Disk /dev/sdh: 8032 MB, 8032092160 bytes
5 heads, 32 sectors/track, 98048 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 160 * 512 = 81920 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf4c4f4c4

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdh1 * 51 98048 7839808 83 Linux

terminal command 'lsusb' returns this

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp. Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Stick (4GB) / PNY Attache 4GB Stick

it's the 8gb version though

[xrhettx]

You're using NTFS on a flash drive in Linux? Try FAT.

[Jouke S]

You're using NTFS on a flash drive in Linux? Try FAT.

Try reading the first sentence


I've fixed the problem by typing 'gksu gedit /etc/fstab'
and adding '/dev/sdg1 /media/8GB ntfs defaults,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000 0 0' to the file

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1604251
there's a tutorial

[linuchsan]

For now it is /dev/sdg1 ...what in the future?
It is appreciated that you send us a link how you "solved it". A lot of people don't do so

[Jouke S]

For now it is /dev/sdg1 ...what in the future?
It is appreciated that you send us a link how you "solved it". A lot of people don't do so

it mysteriously migrated to /dev/sdc1 now, what happened we may never know

[mcduck]

I formatted my usb stick to nfts to fit files larger than 4gb (fat32 won't support it) and now I'm unable to mount it.
The drive is visible through Nautilus and GParted but I can't mount it there and the terminal command 'mount /dev/sdh1'
returns 'mount: can't find /dev/sdh1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab'


formatting it to other file systems doesn't do anything
drive information:


terminal command 'lsusb' returns this

it's the 8gb version though

If you haven't defined a drive in fstab, you have to tell mount a bit more than what you are now telling it. You need to specify what to mount, what filesystem it uses, and where you wish to mount it. And you also need to create the mount point if you haven't done that already.

sudo mkdir /media/usbdrive
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdf1 /media/usbdrive

(if the drive is configured in fstab, you can mount it simply by specifying the drve to mount, ort it's mount point. Mount will get the rest of the required information from fstab)