Hi Esther,
You probably need to pass it the filesystem type, as the error suggests.
The option will depend on how the usb drive was formatted, but I suspect it
was made for Windows. In that case, try:
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/external
If you do a "man mount" you will get all mount options.
Good luck,
David
On 2/16/07, Esther Brugger <esther_brugger.yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your help.
> When I type: mount /dev/sda /mnt/external
> it says: mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>
> What's the problem? Thanks!
>
> *Florian Haberl <Florian.Haberl.chemie.uni-erlangen.de>* wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> On Thursday, 15. February 2007 20:53, Esther Brugger wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I met a problem about the computer. I saved my previous AMBER results in
> > an external hard drive. Now I am using another PC to deal with the data
> in
> > the Fedora Core4 Linux system. But I found I couldn't mount this
> external
> > drive under this system. Is there somebody know how I can read these
> > files?? Thanks a lot for your any help!
>
> this is more a linux related question.
>
> Normally fedora or suse should automount external (usb or firewire
> devices).
>
> If it dont work try following:
>
> - Plug in and switch the harddisk on
> - Take a look at dmesg (su and then dmesg) to see if your pc knows the
> hardware
> - Manual mount your harddisk (something like mkdir /mnt/usbhd
> mount /dev/sdx1 /mnt/usbhd)
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Esther B.
> >
> >
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>
> Greetings,
>
> Florian
>
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