Carlos E. R. said the following on 02/17/2013 07:40 AM:
Verify that it is in fact a FAT filesystem. You can use "file /dev/sdb1" to see. If it is not FAT, you can try to mount it with the proper filesystem type.
Maybe not; that might only tell you that it is a block device. I'd recommend the command 'blkid'. See the man page for details. Its touted as <quote> The blkid program is the command-line interface to working with the libblkid(3) library. It can determine the type of content (e.g. filesystem or swap) that a block device holds, and also attributes (tokens, NAME=value pairs) from the content metadata (e.g. LABEL or UUID fields). </quote> That seems more like it :-) # file /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: block special # blkid -p /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: UUID="e3d06ff8-a408-49d3-ae30-99d5be0c0d0d" VERSION="1.0" TYPE="ext4" USAGE="filesystem" PART_ENTRY_SCHEME="dos" PART_ENTRY_TYPE="0x83" PART_ENTRY_FLAGS="0x80" PART_ENTRY_NUMBER="1" PART_ENTRY_OFFSET="2048" PART_ENTRY_SIZE="614400" PART_ENTRY_DISK="8:0" YMMV -- The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. -- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org