problem mounting vfat hard drive

thisbleedingheart · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 17 Location: Oxford, PA

I have a 100 gb hard drive that i use for storage. the filesystem is fat32 and as far as i know is in perfect working condition. i added the hard drive (/dev/hdb) to the fstab file with this following line: /dev/hdb /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0

does not mount during startup... tried mounting it manually by mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/windows

in both methods i get this error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb, or too many mounted file systems

i definetly have fat filesystems compiled into the kernel, not as modules but directly compiled.

can anyone please guide me in the right direction with a new idea? thanks alot!!

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20583

rac · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 6:11 pm Post subject:

You're trying to mount the entire drive, aren't you? Can you try /dev/hdb1 or some other partition number instead of /dev/hdb? Apologies if it was just a typo.
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thisbleedingheart · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 17 Location: Oxford, PA

Thanks rac that did it... i was trying to mount the entire drive. i just specified /dev/hdb1 and that did it... thanks again!