[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#637084: base: can't mount a usb drive with FAT32 file system in terminal

[Hughe Chung]

Package: base
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i


When I tried to mount a usb stick with FAT32 filesyste as below

$ mount -t vfat /dev/sdf1 /mnt/stick

It couldn't mount complaing unknown filetye error. Below is the syslog content.

Aug  8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.076126] usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Aug  8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214701] usb 3-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0ea0, idProduct=2168
Aug  8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214709] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Aug  8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214716] usb 3-4: Product: XTICK
Aug  8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214720] usb 3-4: Manufacturer: LG
Aug  8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214725] usb 3-4: SerialNumber: 8CB1E142201FFFDA
Aug  8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.214980] usb 3-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Aug  8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.216243] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Aug  8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.216778] usb-storage: device found at 2
Aug  8 19:32:56 theblue kernel: [ 8069.216783] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Aug  8 19:33:01 theblue kernel: [ 8074.217248] usb-storage: device scan complete
Aug  8 19:33:01 theblue kernel: [ 8074.219199] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     LG       XTICK            2.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Aug  8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.340837] ready
Aug  8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.341454] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] 1024000 512-byte logical blocks: (524 MB/500 MiB)
Aug  8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.342190] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
Aug  8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.342197] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
Aug  8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.342203] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
Aug  8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.347680] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
Aug  8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.347692]  sdf:
Aug  8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.351171] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
Aug  8 19:33:02 theblue kernel: [ 8075.351184] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
Aug  8 19:52:37 theblue kernel: [ 9250.308725] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
Aug  8 19:52:37 theblue kernel: [ 9250.309689] FAT: invalid media value (0x20)
Aug  8 19:52:37 theblue kernel: [ 9250.309695] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdf1.
Aug  8 19:54:36 theblue kernel: [ 9369.245701] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
Aug  8 19:54:36 theblue kernel: [ 9369.246670] FAT: invalid media value (0x20)
Aug  8 19:54:36 theblue kernel: [ 9369.246676] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdf1.
Aug  8 19:55:03 theblue kernel: [ 9396.912745] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
Aug  8 19:55:03 theblue kernel: [ 9396.913569] FAT: invalid media value (0x20)
Aug  8 19:55:03 theblue kernel: [ 9396.913575] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdf1.
Aug  8 20:17:01 theblue /USR/SBIN/CRON[8717]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Aug  8 20:19:39 theblue kernel: [10872.444867] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
Aug  8 20:19:39 theblue kernel: [10872.445813] FAT: invalid media value (0x20)

So I formated the usb stick with ntfs and tested again.

$ mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt/stick 

This time it recoginizes ntfs without -t option. 



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash