vfat mount error

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/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf
> Of Gorman,
> John
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:26 AM
> To: 'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'
> Subject: vfat mount error
>
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks
>
> John Gorman
>
>
>
>
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