Hello, I tried to mount a particular flash drive using the following: sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash, & the following message was returned: mount: /mnt/flash: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist. What does that mean re a 'special device'? Thank you.
Did you check it exists? ie. using blkid (or equivalent) showed a sdb1 as a valid block device? capable of being mounted.
If you read the reference manual page for mount (man mount) you’ll see it refer to "special block device; as not all devices can be mounted the page refers to block devices as special as they can be mounted)
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Thanx, I didn’t do that; I’ll do that now. I referred to Schott’s manual & the LinuxConfig w/s when I encountered the problem.
I find
lsblk -f
convenient to see all block devices.
And please make also sure, that the mountpoint /mnt/flash exists, before mounting.
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