[NTLUG:Discuss] Problem to mount USB memory stick

[steve]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Bob Netherton wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 17:36 -0600, Choi Jason wrote:
>>> Hello guys,
>>>
>>> I have a problem to mount USB memory stick.
>>> I found some memory stick was successfully mounted but others were not
>>> mounted successfully.
>>> And the error messages are as followings.
>> Is it possible that this is a FAT16 formatted USB device ?   Quite a
>> few of the recent ones I've picked up have been factory formatted as
>> FAT16. A quick reformat as FAT32 and you've back in business.

Hmmm - that's interesting.  We have an MP3 player that Linux won't
mount.  I wonder if that's the same problem?   Of course it would
probably be a really, really bad idea to reformat an MP3 player's
internal drive.

Why can't Linux mount FAT16?