Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Charles Read wrote:

> Here's what I tried:
> 
> 0. Looked at /proc/filesystems to verify
> that VFAT was supported.
> 
> 1. Ran "dmesg | more" to verify that /dev/hda1
> was the correct partition.
> 
> 2. Ran mount and got this result:
> 
> # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> [me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2,fs=32,fl=0,ds=32,de=0,
> data=32,se=0,ts=7805889,ls=512]
> Transaction block size = 512
> VFS:  Can't find a valid MS-DOS filesystem on dev 03:01
> mount:  wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1
> or too many mounted filesystems
> 
> Any clues what's wrong here?
> 
Did you try to mount the partition with -t msdos? 

Luck,

Dwarf
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