Mount fat32 partition
Bob Chiodini
chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov
Mon Sep 13 17:28:29 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 13:23, Nicolas Fortin wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I want to share a fat32 partition between Fedora and WinXP. I created
> the
> mounted directory (/mnt/win) and tried the following command :
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda8 /mnt/win
>
> Unfortunately, I got this message :
>
> mount : wrong fs type, bad option bad superblock on /dev/hda8, or too
> may
> mounted file systems.
>
> I looked my partition details with "fdisk -l /dev/hda" but fdisk was
> not
> installed. So I tried fdisk from a bootable cd and according it,
> /dev/hda8
> is really a fat partition. I also attempted to add the following line
> in my
> /etc/fstab file :
>
> /dev/hda8 /mnt/win vfat noauto,user 0 0
>
> but I am still stuck with the same message when Fedora is lauched.
>
> Now, I simply don't know what to do. I will be glad if anyone could
> help me.
>
> Nicolas
>
Nicolas,
What happens if you try the mount command without the -t type option?
Also are there any messages in the syslog?
Bob...
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