After editing the file /etc/fstab you have to reboot because this is a static table.
You can also try it by hand with
<code>sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdf1 /media/sansa</code>
If you want to mount it as normal user use the tool pmount. Normally this is not installed on the machines.
<code>pmount -t vfat /dev/sdf1 /media/sansa</code>
Normally that's it, now the sansa icon should appear on the desktop after connecting the device.
Don't forget to unmount the device before disconnecting.
Unfortunately I experienced some problems that it looked that the sansa was just mounted as read-only.
The reason for that was that some files were corrupted. So I connected the sansa to a Windows system and issued the command:
I have a sansa e260 and I am running Ubuntu 8.10.
The sansa must be switch to USB mode MSC.
After connecting the sansa 2 USB devices appear in nautilus but nothing more.
So we have to make the system that it is mounting the device correctly.
Make a new directory:
<code>sudo mkdir /media/sansa</code>
Check which devices are used by the sansa with:
<code>sudo fdisk -l</code>
Now we have to edit the file /etc/fstab amp;</code>
<code>sudo gedit /etc/fstab&
And put the following line at the end of the file, assuming that the first drive of the sansa was found at /dev/sdf1 with the fdisk -l command:
<code>/dev/sdf1 /media/sansa vfat rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0</code>
After editing the file /etc/fstab you have to reboot because this is a static table.
You can also try it by hand with
<code>sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdf1 /media/sansa</code>
If you want to mount it as normal user use the tool pmount. Normally this is not installed on the machines.
<code>pmount -t vfat /dev/sdf1 /media/sansa</code>
Normally that's it, now the sansa icon should appear on the desktop after connecting the device.
Don't forget to unmount the device before disconnecting.
Unfortunately I experienced some problems that it looked that the sansa was just mounted as read-only.
The reason for that was that some files were corrupted. So I connected the sansa to a Windows system and issued the command:
<code>chkdsk /F e:</code>
Now it worked fine on Ubuntu as well.