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coren2000
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 Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:09 am Post subject: USB Harddrive: mount fail: vfat drive |
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Hello,
Could you please help me? I have a 2 USB external harddrives I wish to mount.
One is fat16
Other is fat32
I cannot mount the second with this command
| Code: | | mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb |
I can mount both drives with this command
| Code: | | mount -t msdos -o codepage=437 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb |
when I mount with the msdos option, my file/folder names are truncated to tightly.
Can someone please help me mount with wider file/folder names please?
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:22 am Post subject: |
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coren2000,
Both commands will need theoption. If that is required for mount to work at all, it indicates you have set a defualt codepage to be used in the kernel other than 437 but not actually compiled it under NLS Support.
The error message that the vfat mount returns would be useful
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ChickensDontFly
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| What happens with mount -t auto? |
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coren2000
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | localhost coren # mount -t vfat -o codepage=437 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
localhost coren # mount -t auto -o codepage=437 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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coren2000,
What does the end of dmesg show after you ave attempted to moount /dev/sda1 ?
is a really bad idea. It asks mount to guess the filesystem.
Thats ok for reading, when mount guesses wrong. You just get a mess.
When you write ... well, you have backups don't you ?
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coren2000
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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It says
| Code: | Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1
FAT: IO charset iso8859-1 not found |
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desultory
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:31 am Post subject: |
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| According to that message, the kernel that system is running on lacks iso8859-1 character set support in its Native Language Support. It would seem a new kernel is in order. When configuring the new kernel, under 'File systems --->', 'Native Language Support --->', select (at least one of) 'Codepage 437 (United States, Canada)' or 'NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages)', along with whatever else is of interest. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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coren2000,
You have selected a defualt codepage for VFAT to use but not actually made the codepage for the kernel.
You can use the mount option | Code: | | -o codepage=<codepage> |
to avoid a kernel build.
See under FAT
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