[NTLUG:Discuss] Mounting USB portable drive

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 17:38 -0500, John Thomas wrote:
> Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> SCSI device sdc: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB)
>  sdc: sdc1
        ^^^^ Note Disk Slice 1

For fixed disks, which the SBP-2 system is supporting, you still have a
disk label (partition table) and disk slices (partitions).  So you must
mount the individual slices.

>     ...
> So the device is recognized by the system.
> But mount -t auto /dev/sdc /mnt/USB returns:
> "mount: you must specify the filesystem type"

Try:
  mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /mnt/USB
                        ^ Note the slice (1) added


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