USB and files error

[Nathan123frdo]

Hello, I am running elementary os 0.4 Loki and having problems with my USB stick and the files app.

You see, when I insert my USB stick, I open the files app to try to try start copying files to it. However, It is not listed in the devices menu, as shown in the image below.

So, I tried to make sure that it was mounted by first finding the path of the USB, And then I tried to mount it by typing this command: 

 sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt

And I get this error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so.

So I opened Gparted and it was shown there. How weird! You can see in the image below. I reformated it as fat32 as shown in the image below as well.

I opened files once again, and still did not see it. So I tried running the mount code again and got the same error.

Can someone please tell me what is up? Is it my os or the USB itself?

Thank you!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Lehti]

Try

sudo mount -t fat32 /dev/sdb1 /mnt

It may be that Elementary OS is trying to mount it as ext4, although Debian Jessie mounts it without specifying the filesystem type.

[Nathan123frdo]

4 minutes ago, Lehti said:

Try

sudo mount -t fat32 /dev/sdb1 /mnt

It may be that Elementary OS is trying to mount it as ext4, although Debian Jessie mounts it without specifying the filesystem type.

 

 

Well, after running the code, I get the following error:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'fat32'

 

This is weird! How can I fix that system no longer knows what fat32 is?

Do you think my system might be corrupted?

[Lehti]

What about with

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt

?

[mattk]

14 minutes ago, Lehti said:

What about with

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt

?

Don't you have to specify a mount point in linux?

 

Try using these instructions starting at "Manually Mounting"

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB

[Lehti]

/mnt is a mount point. It's a folder called in mnt under the root directory.

[Nathan123frdo]

Well, the latest command that Lehti gave me did work, but I still do not see the USB in my files app.

What now?

[mattk]

you'll have to go to the /mnt directory

[Nathan123frdo]

Hmm... I do not get what you mean. Can you explain that more?

[mattk]

If you ran that command:

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt

 then the files should be located in /mnt on your filesystem.

[Lehti]

I suppose the USB stick doesn't show up because it's mounted in a place other than /media/LABEL. You can still access your files by going to Files system -> mnt.

 

EDIT:

As I thought, the USB stick will only show up in the file manager if it's mounted in /media/$USER/folder.

Use

sudo mkdir /media/$USER/stick && sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/$USER/stick

and it will show up.

[Nathan123frdo]

Hmm... still not there.

Do you think there is something wrong with my os?

[mattk]

Does this USB Drive show up in other operating systems?

Try a different format like EXT4, NTFS, exFAT?

Try a different USB drive?

 

[Nathan123frdo]

Yes, it does.

I finally out of needing to just restored my system using timeshift.

Now everything is fine!

Thank you for your help!