Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux
> 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
One possible unconfirmed cause (Okay, a guess) Is the Win95 partition
OSR2? (Fat32?) To my knoweldge, the vfat filesystem doesn't yet
support the alterations made by OSR2.
Matt
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