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 1Dspnr-0000Q2-J5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:34:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6DMW9Up024684; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:32:09 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6DMSXWQ000504 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:28:34 GMT Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237] helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DspjX-0001Uo-4N for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:29:39 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.3] (i-83-67-2-179.freedom2surf.net [83.67.2.179]) (authenticated bits=0) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6DMTcch012192 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:29:38 +0100 Message-ID: <42D5A3F4.5000709@chadbournes.f2s.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:29:56 +0000 From: aabb User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 75610085-f397-44d8-816c-cdf78c3d309b X-Archives-Hash: b39e23cb0f8eea7235c52e56fc04d569 Hi, Here's a strange one... 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: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,noexec 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,noexec 0 0 Yet hda1 mounts with no problems, whereas hda5 doesn't. If I execute "mount /mnt/win_d" I get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, or too many mounted file systems 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: (a) hda1 is primary whereas hda5 is logical (b) hda5 is larger than hda1 (20 Gb and 15 Gb, respectively) (c) hda1 is set as the boot partition in fdisk. If I type the above error in Google I get many hits, but nothing helped. Any ideas? Thanks. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list