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greymonkey
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 Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 8:12 pm Post subject: Fat32 problem ... |
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I've used Partition Magic to convert my NTFS partition into a FAT32 partition, so I can read and write to it from both Windblows and Gentoo. I've hit a problem because now I can't mount the partition at all :/ I just don't understand what I'm missing, could anyone shed some light on this?
dmesg has the following information:
| Quote: | dogg linux # dmesg | grep hdb
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
hdb: HDS722516VLAT80, ATA DISK drive
hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
hdb: 321672960 sectors (164696 MB) w/7938KiB Cache, CHS=20023/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes supported
hdb: hdb1
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdb. |
fdisk -l /dev/hdb says the following:
| Quote: | dogg linux # fdisk -l /dev/hdb
Disk /dev/hdb: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 20023 160834716 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) |
I have the relevant fat stuff compiled into the kernel:
| Quote: | dogg linux # grep FAT .config
# DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1" |
but when I try and mount it I get:
| Quote: | dogg linux # mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/big/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
or too many mounted file systems
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It would mount when it was NTFS, and it works perfectly in Windows. Thanks for any help ... |
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dgaffuri
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Please post the output of the p command of
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beatryder
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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Well, first thing you did wrong was use partitioin magic, sorry for the flame.
have you tried fscking it?
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# emerge dosfstools
# fsck /dev/fat32partition
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greymonkey
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, thanks for the pointers. The output of the p from fdisk /dev/hdb
| Quote: | Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdb: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 20023 160834716 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) |
I've tried
and it is *not* happy. It lists a lot of files which I've deleted ... |
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beatryder
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Well, my suggestion would be to back up your data and format the partitio if you can. If not, you may try booting to a windows98 floppy, and running scandisk on it from there.
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greymonkey
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I dual boot and from within XP it will scandisk perfectly.
Thanks for the suggestions, I guess I'll have to move all my files and format it properly ... |
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beatryder
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yeah, i have had zero luck with partition magic myself, it does not play nice with linux
have you tried using partition magic to scan the disk?
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