unable to mount usb.

[Eial Czerwacki]

On 01/24/2012 09:20 AM, ralda at gmx.de wrote:

> 
>> mount /etc/sdb1 /mnt/disk
>> mount: mounting /etc/sdb1 on /mnt/disk failed: No such file or directory
> 
> Why /etc/sdb1 ??? ... or is that a typo?
> 
> ... usually it is /dev/sdb1:
> 
> ... so do "ls -l /dev/sd*" to see if the device "/dev/sdb1" exists
> 
> ... and "ls -l /mnt" to see if the mount directory "/mnt/disk" exists
> 


typo, it is /dev/sdb1
/mnt/disk exists and here is the output of
"ls -l /dev/sdb*":

brw-r-----    1 root     root        8,  16 Jan 24 06:50 /dev/sdb
brw-r-----    1 root     root        8,  17 Jan 24 06:50 /dev/sdb0
brw-r-----    1 root     root        8,  18 Jan 24 06:50 /dev/sdb1
brw-r-----    1 root     root        8,  19 Jan 24 06:50 /dev/sdb2
brw-r-----    1 root     root        8,  20 Jan 24 06:50 /dev/sdb3
brw-r-----    1 root     root        8,  21 Jan 24 06:50 /dev/sdb4
brw-r-----    1 root     root        8,  22 Jan 24 06:50 /dev/sdb5
brw-r-----    1 root     root        8,  23 Jan 24 06:50 /dev/sdb6
brw-r-----    1 root     root        8,  24 Jan 24 06:50 /dev/sdb7