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toni

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Registered: 2011-10-15

Posts: 437

[SOLVED] cannot mount vfat usb

When I plug in my usb device an error is shown:

Error mounting /dev/sdc1 at /run/media/toni/BE40-9797: Command-line `mount -t "vfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=100,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush" "/dev/sdc1" "/run/media/toni/BE40-9797"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

How can I solve this?

Last edited by toni (2013-12-11 20:59:11)

GloW_on_dub

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Registered: 2013-03-13

Posts: 388

Re: [SOLVED] cannot mount vfat usb

reboot

toni

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Registered: 2011-10-15

Posts: 437

Re: [SOLVED] cannot mount vfat usb

reboot

Thanks, it worked.

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED] cannot mount vfat usb

So, why did the reboot work ? (asked rhetorically)

Unlike some other famous operating systems,it is not likely that you machine had reached some unstable state requiring a restart to put it into a known state.

In your case, you probably updated the kernel.  When this happens, the kernel modules on disk for the running kernel are replaced by those for the new kernel.  After you did the upgrade, you plugged in your USB device.  The kernel looked for its modules, but they were gone -- replaced by those for the new kernel.  After rebooting, you are now running the kernel that matches the installed modules.

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GloW_on_dub

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Re: [SOLVED] cannot mount vfat usb

@ewaller : thanks for the explanation.