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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition
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aabb wrote:

>Thanks for all replies so far.
>
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>>What's the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda"?
>> 
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>Output from "fdisk -l /dev/hda":
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/hda1   *           1        1794    14410273+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>/dev/hda2            1795        1800       48195   83  Linux
>/dev/hda3            1801       19457   141829852+   5  Extended
>/dev/hda5            1801        4200    19277968+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>/dev/hda6            4201        7100    23294218+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda7            7101        7190      722893+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
>/dev/hda8            7191       19457    98534646   83  Linux
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>

Maybe it isn't really a FAT32 filesystem?

Could you try something like: strings /dev/hda5  | less

With a FAT32 filesystem, I get:

mkdosfs
BRJF_KEY    FAT32
This is not a bootable disk.  Please insert a bootable floppy and
press any key to try again ...
RRaA
rrAa{
mkdosfs
BRJF_KEY    FAT32
This is not a bootable disk.  Please insert a bootable floppy and
press any key to try again ...
<list of short filenames on system...>

Obviously I formatted the above with mkdosfs, but you can see the label
(RJF_KEY) and type as well.

By comparison, on NTFS, I get:

0000374 t+a`j
0000454 Invalid partition table
0000504 Error loading operating system
0000543 Missing operating system
0077003 NTFS
...

HTH

-Richard
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