When I created a persistent /home directory with the Kanotix live cd on my usb reader/writer stick, it formatted it with ext2 rather than the fat32 it came with. This is great because I much prefer ext2. I also have other files on this device that I wish to access from my installed Fedora Core 1.
 
In Core 1, when the reader/writer was formatted with fat32, and I had it labled as fat32 in /etc/fstab, I could write:
 
mount /mnt/usbstick
 
in my .bash_profile, and it would mount it when I logged in to my desktop environment. Since it is now formatted as ext2, this no longer works. Here is it's respctive line as it presently appears in /etc/fstab..
 

Code:

/dev/sda1               /mnt/usbstick           ext2    user,noauto,umask=0   0 0

 
When I try to mount it using kwikdisk, or from the terminal as regular user with:
 
mount /mnt/usbstick/
 
I get:
 

Code:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,       or too many mounted file systems

 
Although if I do as root:
 
mount/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick
 
It gets mounted and I have access to it at /mnt/usbstick, even though I haven't mounted /mnt/usbstick!
 
This has got me confused. Does anyone know whats going on here, and can someone suggest how I can get /mnt/usbstick to again mount automatically like when it was formatted with fat32?
 
Thanks for your help.