Re: Mounting USB Harddisk
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Vikas Rawal wrote:
> I sent my reply to you and to user-help last time as well. I used
> "reply" and realised it went to you. So I separately sent one to the
> list. My intention was not to burden you with the responsibility of
> solving my trouble. I am sorry. I am thankful to you and others who are
> trying to help. Sincerely.
yup... so i see... thanx for reposting to the list ...
> About the fat32 issue. I formatted my usb-disk as a fat32 partition.
there is no such things as fat32 format
did you use windoze to format the usb disk ??
- sometimes linux and windoze does not like each other
partition types ... there are gazillion "fat32" partition types
what exact partitition type is it
fdisk -l /dev/sda
but than gain, your system cannot even see it so the point
is that its NOT a supported partition type for whatever reason
i'm assuming you did your formatting and fdisk'ing under windoze
since you are having all this trouble
> I
> know it is a fat32 partition because I did it (the vendor had made an
> ntfs partition. I deleted it and made a fat32 partition). I have made a
> 20 GB fat32 partition.
and the nost inmportand detail ..
how did you make the fat32 partition ??
what is the partition number ?
did you do it with windoze
> I also have a fat32 partition on my internal harddisk (ide?). My debian
> reads the fat32 partition on my internal harddisk correctly. Would that
> not imply that my kernal supports vfat?
no ... do NOT mix and match vfat and fat32 ... it is NOT the same
fdisk -l /dev/internal-hardisk
c ya
alvin
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