USB mass storage device

[Scott J. Henson]

Camuzat Sebastien wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>They are recognized as is by nautilus, and disks
>manager, but the system cannot mount it. It says : the
>UID given is not a mountable volume, while Im sure I
>had access to it a few months ago.
>
>My fstab line is very basic :
>/dev/sda       /media/sda1     vfat    defaults       
>0       0
>

In Ubuntu, if you don't put that line in /etc/fstab, then you plug your 
usb mass storage device in, it should automagically mount it on 
/media/sda1.  It should have permissions of the current logged in user, 
and everything should just work.  I would try that.