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On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 15:23 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Hello everybody, |
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> I have a spare partition formatted as FAT 32 on an IDE |
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> disk. |
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> vfat and ide-disk support was compiled into the |
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> kernel. |
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as a module or built-in ? |
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> But #mount -t vfat responds w/ unknown fs type 'vfat'. |
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What does /var/log/messages show during this command? |
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> Even w/ -t auto it replies unknown fs 'vfat'. All |
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> other partitions, ext2, reiserfs, ntfs mount OK. |
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sounds like you haven't got the module loaded. What does |
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`grep VFAT /usr/src/linux/.config` |
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show? (replace /usr/src/linux/.config with wherever your kernel config |
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file is) |
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You could also try `modprobe vfat` before you mount the disk |
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HTH, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be |
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sorry. |
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-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" |
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