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lucacerone

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Registered: 2012-05-04

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[SOLVED] Error mounting Kindle

Dear all,
whenever I connect my Kindle to the laptop, caja (Mate's fork of Nautilus) shows this error message:

Unable to mount Kindle

Error mounting /dev/sdc1 at /run/media/luca/Kindle: Command-line `mount -t "vfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush" "/dev/sdc1" "/run/media/luca/Kindle"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

Any idea how can I fix this issue?

Last edited by lucacerone (2014-05-21 23:22:40)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Error mounting Kindle

You have to reboot after kernel updates.

lucacerone

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Re: [SOLVED] Error mounting Kindle

Thanks, that actually worked!

lucacerone

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Re: [SOLVED] Error mounting Kindle

I should also mention that before rebooting I also installed the packages dosfstools ntfs-3g ntfsprogs (dosfstools contains tools to manage vfat partitions),
I am not sure whether this contributed to fix the issues or not.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Error mounting Kindle

Did it work after installing these packages and before rebooting?
I don't think you need dosfstools or ntfs-3g to just mount vfat / ntfs partitions.

lucacerone

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Re: [SOLVED] Error mounting Kindle

I rebooted after installing, and it wasn't working before rebooting.
Still in other posts on the forum (for other devices) they advice installing dosfstools and then to reboot.