does vfat work?

remix · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 797 Location: hawaii

for some reason i can't get vfat to work, i am not able to mount vfat partitions with #mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /mnt/vfat
my kernel looks like this

<*> MSDOS fs support
<*> VFAT (Windows-95) fs support
(437) Default Codepage for FAT
(iso8859-1) Default iocharset for FAT

am i missing something?
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nyk · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:27 am Post subject:

Your kernel settings look good, if it's the corrent codepage for this partition.
What's the error message, if you use
-v Verbose mode
with mount?

remix · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 797 Location: hawaii

nyk · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:46 am Post subject:

Ok, this isn't very helpful..
Maybe there's a hint in dmesg or in your metalog (if you use it or something similar). When I had problems with mounting (and I had lots), sometimes I found the reason in one of the system logs.

remix · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 797 Location: hawaii

babo · Guru Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 477 Location: Ljubljana

you have to enable codepage 437 in your kernel.
Under --> File Systems --> Native Language Support

remix · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 797 Location: hawaii

snapper73 · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Posts: 25

its working fine for me. below are my .config entries. hope this helps...

babo · Guru Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 477 Location: Ljubljana

I also have 437 and iso8859-1 built in to the kernel like snapper73

magnesium · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject:

as far as I know, if you build vfat into the kernel, you also need to load codepage 437 into the kernel. Think of it as a dependancy for fat and vfat to work correctly.

edit: a pre-requisit even. codepage needs to be up first, I think
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