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I had a hard time trying to get my Cruzier to work in my Kubuntu Breezy Linux. Everytime I plugged in my thumbdrive, it gives me an error message “media:/sda1 does not exist”. I was getting frustrated with this because I had to save some of my files from my Ubuntu to my thumbdrive so that I can work it on my PC. I worked around it by e-mailing the files and re-downloading it on the PC but got tired of it soon after. haha..

So I decided to dig into my directory and snoop around. There I saw the problem straight away! (or I should say I gambled that this was the root cause) So if you got the same problem as me, try doing what I did. Hope this will somehow solve your problem too. Get to your root console and type this.
root~$: sudo vim /etc/fstab

You’ll get something like this.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
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proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /media/hda3 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
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“/etc/fstab” 11L, 654C 1,1 All

Ok. What is missing here is the line that enables Linux to know what to do when it detects your thumbdrive. So you got to add this into the file.

/dev/sdb1 /media/thumbdrive vfat rw,user,noauto,sync 0 0

Then press Esc+shift+: X to end and save the file. And you are almost home! Lastly, Linux will complain that “/media/thumbdrive” does not exist! Ahhh… very simple my friends…. All you got to do is add a directory @ /media.

root~$: sudo mkdir /media/thumbdrive

That’s it! And re-plug in your thumbdrive and Linux will not complain anymore! haha.. Hope it works for you guys!