Can't mount flash card.

**veisong** · 03-Jul-2008, 05:45

I've installed ntfs-config packet to enable write rights to ntfs partitions, I have succeed, but now I can't open my flash usb stick. When I am plugging it in Suse 11 says that there is a problem in mounting this device...I've tried 3 different usb stick, same ****** Can somebody help me? Thank you in advance

**swerdna** · 03-Jul-2008, 06:26

Flash usb sticks are usually FAT32 filesystem. You can check the filesystem by plugging in a drive and running in a console this command:

Code:

sudo /sbin/fdisk -l

Swerdna

**veisong** · 04-Jul-2008, 09:09

Yes my flash is fat32 and I asked why this packet (ntfs-config) broke RW of my flash?

Does anybody know how to change everuthing back to standart driver (not ntfs-3g) or how to make my flash card accessible with ntfs-config installed.
Thank you.

**swerdna** · 04-Jul-2008, 14:06

This is what maybe happened: ntfs-config makes a permanent entry in the file system table (called fstab). You shouldn't use ntfs-config for temporary partitions like usb sticks. Now there's maybe a line in fstab similar to this:

Code:

/dev/disk/by-id/etc-etc-part1 /mnt/sdb1   ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,blah_blah_F-8 0 0

You have to remove it.
You can see the line/s in fstab by executing this command in a console:

Code:

cat /etc/fstab

See the one with ntfs-3g in it; that would let you see whether I am right or whether I misdiagnosed the situation.
If it's there, make a backup copy of fstab and then edit fstab and remove the offending line.

Swerdna