My mp3 player doesn't automount, and I can't figure out how to mount it. It's a panasonic SV-MP020. tail -f /var/log/messages returned this when I plugged my mp3 player in: Jan 1 21:01:17 localhost kernel: [17183807.972000] HFS+-fs: unable to find HFS+ superblock Jan 1 21:01:25 localhost kernel: [17183815.276000] HFS+-fs: unable to find HFS+ superblock Jan 1 21:01:36 localhost kernel: [17183826.624000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda. Jan 1 21:02:38 localhost kernel: [17183888.080000] EFS: 1.0a - http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/ Jan 1 21:02:51 localhost kernel: [17183901.864000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda. Jan 1 21:03:01 localhost kernel: [17183911.224000] HPFS: Bad magic ... probably not HPFS Jan 1 21:03:12 localhost kernel: [17183922.496000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. Jan 1 21:03:17 localhost kernel: [17183927.752000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. Jan 1 21:12:40 localhost kernel: [17184490.568000] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 11 Jan 1 21:13:10 localhost kernel: [17184520.688000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 13 Jan 1 21:13:11 localhost kernel: [17184521.192000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 14 Jan 1 21:13:11 localhost kernel: [17184521.340000] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jan 1 21:13:16 localhost kernel: [17184526.344000] Vendor: MATs---A Model: Audio Player Rev: 1.00 Jan 1 21:13:16 localhost kernel: [17184526.344000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Jan 1 21:13:16 localhost kernel: [17184526.348000] SCSI device sda: 4090368 512-byte hdwr sectors (2094 MB) Jan 1 21:13:16 localhost kernel: [17184526.352000] sda: Write Protect is off Jan 1 21:13:16 localhost kernel: [17184526.360000] SCSI device sda: 4090368 512-byte hdwr sectors (2094 MB) Jan 1 21:13:16 localhost kernel: [17184526.364000] sda: Write Protect is off Jan 1 21:13:16 localhost kernel: [17184526.364000] sda: sda1 Jan 1 21:13:16 localhost kernel: [17184526.372000] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda Jan 1 21:13:16 localhost kernel: [17184526.372000] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 god@GOD:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt/mp3 mount: you must specify the filesystem type So, I don't know what to do from here, don't know what filesystem type to mount it as, but there is a nagging suspicion in my mind I am making a ver stupid mistake here... Any help would be appreciated, thanks

$ sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt/mp3 Use /dev/sda1 instead which donates the first partition on your sda device. You may also have to provide the filesystem type: $ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/mp3

Ah, ok thanks. I reinstalled the gdm packages. and booted GNOME (which automounted it) figured it out. At first when I had tried it said something about invalid VFAT header or something of the sort, but apparently that was only that one time, thanks.