Re: Mounting fat32
Dan Stefan Rundberget wrote:
>
> I 've got Sarge and WinXP. I have all my personal stuff on one seperate
> harddrive (hdd, with fat32) and I'm trying to mount it under ~/danstefan.
> I've tried: # mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /home/danstefan/danstefan
> I get this wrong fs type or to many mounting points error.
>
> And I've added this line to /etc/fstab:
> /dev/hdd /home/danstefan/danstefan vfat defaults,user 0 0
>
> KDiskFree shows the line, but when I click tan select mount i get the
> same error!
>
> With this one I have 5 lines in /etc/fstab, so I can't have to many.
> Trying to migrate frame Mandrake (eanted to try one of those truly free
> distros) it mountd perfect with manrakes buildin, and it worked! I
> did'nt get eny errors! Wel itæs the same disc, only the distro has changed!
>
> Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> PS
> Does eny one know why its called vfat instead of fat32?
>
> I hope my englis is'nt too bad. (I'm Norwegian)
/dev/hdd designates an entire hard drive. You have to mount a partition
from that drive, such as /dev/hdd1 or /dev/hdd2 etc.
I believe vfat stands for virtual fat (or something along those lines),
where you can have long filenames - as opposed to 'msdos' where the
filenames are restricted to the 8.3 format. vfat can mount either FAT16
or FAT32 file systems.
Tom
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