I am unable to mount any fat32 or fat16 formatted usb disks under Ubuntu 13.10.
The thing here to note is that it is happening only with fat formatted Disks. ntfs, ext formatted external usb disks work well
(I tried formatting the same with ext4 and it worked)
While mounting via nautilus:
Error while mounting from terminal:
root@shubham-pc:~# mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/shubham/n
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
As suggested by the error:
Output from dmesg | tail
root@shubham-pc:~# dmesg | tail
[ 3545.482598] scsi8 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 3546.481530] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer 1.26 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 3546.482373] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 3546.483758] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] 15633408 512-byte logical blocks: (8.00 GB/7.45 GiB)
[ 3546.485254] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 3546.485262] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 3546.488314] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3546.499820] sdc: sdc1
[ 3546.503388] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 3547.273396] FAT-fs (sdc1): IO charset iso8859-1 not found
Output from fsck.vfat:
root@shubham-pc:~# fsck.vfat /dev/sdc1
dosfsck 3.0.16, 01 Mar 2013, FAT32, LFN
/dev/sdc1: 1 files, 1/1949978 clusters
All normal
Tried re-creating the whole partition table and then formatting as fat32 but to no avail so the possibility of corrupted drive is ruled out.
Tried the same with around 4 Disks or so and all have the same things
Best Answer
Apparently, your kernel somehow has problems (maybe a bug). Since there is an updated version available, install it (version
3.11.0-13-generic)now reboot in your new kernel.