[PLUG] USB flash drive issues

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, wes wrote:

> Normally, only the superuser ("root" on many unix-like operating systems)
> can mount a new filesystem. This is not required on your older system
> because you've specified the "users" option in the related fstab entry.

Wes,

   The fstab entries on both systems are the same: auto,users.rw.

> This is the expected behavior when the mount utility is unable to identify
> what it's mounting. Normally, if you don't specify the filesystem type, it
> tries to detect it for you. If you do specify the type, and the actual
> type on the storage device is not the same as what you specified, you'll
> get the same error.

   True. But what I want to understand is why the source system understands
that both problem flash drives have a vfat file system while the target
system doesn't.

> You may want to try using the "file" and "fdisk" utilities on the device
> paths to see what may actually be there.

   Will do so tomorrow.

Rich