From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DswxV-0004VR-Pk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:12:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6E6Bdx8012481; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:11:39 GMT Received: from 80.55.160.128 (ve128.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [80.55.160.128]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6E68AdP008154 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:08:10 GMT Received: (qmail 13577 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Jul 2005 08:09:21 +0200 Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:09:21 +0200 From: Mariusz =?iso-8859-2?Q?P=EAkala?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition Message-ID: <20050714060920.GA10265@lisa.tutaj> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <42D5A3F4.5000709@chadbournes.f2s.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42D5A3F4.5000709@chadbournes.f2s.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: a87911be-51ab-4873-9c8f-ab3d003efb51 X-Archives-Hash: 5f6005578ecafe0143461258aeffcdf5 --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005-07-13 23:29:56 +0000 (Wed, Jul), aabb wrote: > I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type > "c" (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries > in /etc/fstab are almost identical: >=20 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=3D0,noexec 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=3D0,noexec 0 0 >=20 > Yet hda1 mounts with no problems, whereas hda5 doesn't. If I execute > "mount /mnt/win_d" I get the error: >=20 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, > or too many mounted file systems >=20 > I tried various combinations (such as "mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 > /mnt/win_d") and always get the same error. The only differences between > the 2 partitions that I can think of are: >=20 Check any messages in dmesg output and your syslog file (/var/log/messages or /var/log/everything/current) after you try to mount /dev/hda5. Usually the winner is the lack of necessary encoding in kernel: File Systems -> Native Language Support -> ... I assume that /dev/hda5 _HAS_ proper FAT filesystem on it.. ;-) HTH --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by 'grep -i virus $MESSAGE' Trust me. --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC1gGQIzblgXdKMIURAk5xAKCAnokJSGC93F4UXTR8xfSOJUMmTgCeN8BL Bi3ptMiI93YDp9sd03QFjPw= =5LaN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list