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21st January 2012, 12:46 AM

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got "must specify FS type" upon trying to mount flash drive

i tried to mount my flash drive:

1. mkdir /thmb
2. mount /dev/sdb /thmb

then i got the error

once i did

1. mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb
2. mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /thmb

it wiped out my entire thumb drive !!

WTF?!

---------- Post added at 12:46 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:38 AM ----------

the question being how do i mount a USB drive with data from another OS so that i can read it in F16 without having to format it in Fedora

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