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

[Mariusz Pękala]

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:
>
> /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:
>

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

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