[TriLUG] trouble mounting a USB drive

[Joseph Tate]

Ryan Leathers wrote:

> I have a spankin' new hard drive and external USB 2.0 enclosure.
> I'm not smart enough to get the thing to mount.
> 
> I can "see" the device and fdisk it, but when I try to 
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb it complains thusly:
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> So I added this to my /etc/fstab
> /dev/sda1  /mnt/usb  ext3  defaults 0 0
> but still get the error
> 

Silly question.  Did you run mke2fs on it?