My machine on which was installed OpenBSD 5.7-stable, was booted up with my USB 2.0 flash drive plugged into a USB 2.0 port.
I logged in as root, opened up a terminal and typed:
mount /dev/sd1i /mnt/usb0
The error message was:
mount_msdos: /dev/sd1i on /mnt/usb0 : Inappropriate file type or format
I tried to reformat the flash drive under each of the following scenarios:
- The USB stick was formatted as ext2 on a Ubuntu machine using gparted
- The same stick was formatted as fat32 on the same Ubuntu machine using gparted
- It was formatted as fat32 on a Microsoft Windows 7 machine
I decided to add the following relevant details to help in your diagnostics. They are the result of a dmesg command that I issued:
scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Apacer 2.0 PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 30489408 512-byte logical blocks: (15.6 GB/14.5 GiB)
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
FAT-fs (sdb1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
FAT-fs (sdb1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
FAT-fs (sdb1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
Note: The USB drive as formatted with a FAT32 filesystem using gparted on a Ubuntu OS.
