vfat mount error

Joseph T. Tannenbaum tannenba@access1.com
Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:48:18 -0700


fat32 is NOT vfat.  There IS a fat32 option for mounting drives
I believe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Kevin
> Brown
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 4:35 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: vfat mount error
> 
> 
> I have linux on my laptop dual booting with Win95b on a Fat32 
> partition.  I can
> read and write to the FAT32 partition from LINUX, so I don't 
> think that is the
> problem, linux can see FAT32.
> 
> > Did your friend convert the drive to fat32?  That will
> > render it unseeable.
> > 
> > Joseph T. Tannenbaum, MCSE, MCP+I
> > tannenba@access1.com
> > http://members.access1.net/tannenba/
> 
> > > I talked my friend, who is a big Windows fan, to trying linux.
> > >
> > > He has 2 drives, and he has linux on hdc1 and win98 on hda1.
> > >
> > > When we set the box up, I mounted hda1 so he could get to his
> > > windows files from linux.
> > >
> > > Now when ever he tries to mount hda1 with type vfat he gets
> > > a message:
> > >
> > > $ mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrive
> > >
> > > mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel
> > >
> > > He said is was working and then all of a sudden this started
> > > to happen. No rebuild has been done.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any idea what is causing this and how to fix it?
> 
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