connect 3d 512MB memory stick

[billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:43:05PM -0400, Randy Jonasz wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> A little while ago I bought a usb memory stick and have been using it with 
> windows for travelling back and forth from school. Today I managed to get 
> gentoo linux to recognize the stick and allow me to mount it with 
> 
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb 

try 
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

> 
> One question I have is why the filenames are in 8.3 format in linux while in 
> windows I have extended names
> 
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