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stalia
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:52 am    Post subject: Can't mount a fat32 partition (RESOLVED) Reply with quote

The problem:

Code:
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda3 /share
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3,
       or too many mounted file systems


sda is a 200GB SATA drive split into 4 primary partitions, sda1 is reiserfs, sda2 is swap, sda4 is ntfs
sda3 is a fat32 partition, formatted with windows XP. The LiveCD can mount it perfectly, and Windows XP uses it fine too. There is no entry in fstab for sda3 atm.

System setup: amd64 system, gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.8-r6 with vfat support. Current mounts are:

Code:
# mount
/dev/sda1 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev type ramfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/sda4 on /ntfs type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=000)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
192.168.0.1:/usr/portage on /usr/portage type nfs (rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,addr=192.168.0.1)


Any ideas as to how to fix this?


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spendabuck
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

try this
mount -t vfat -o umask=000,dmask=000,fmask=000,uid=eric,gid=vfat /dev/sdX /location
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

take a look at this: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=221381&highlight=mount+usb+stick

specifically, take a look at the Native Language support discussion at the end of that thread

If that doesnt help please post dmesg after trying to mount.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep, thanks, that was it. Compiled cp437 and ISO-8859-1 support into the kernel and it's all god now.
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