[gentoo-user] Can't mount vfat partition
I just can't mount this FAT32 partition: /dev/hde5 /home/colin/Documents vfat uid=colin,umask=122 0 0 When I try to mount it, I get this error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde5, or too many mounted file systems I've tried every mount command I could think of. It mounted under the LiveCD. Yes, I've compiled in msdos, VFAT and NTFS support, but it just refuses to mount. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount vfat partition
Colin wrote: I just can't mount this FAT32 partition: /dev/hde5 /home/colin/Documents vfat uid=colin,umask=122 0 0 When I try to mount it, I get this error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde5, or too many mounted file systems I've tried every mount command I could think of. It mounted under the LiveCD. Yes, I've compiled in msdos, VFAT and NTFS support, but it just refuses to mount. -- Colin After you try to mount does the output of dmesg|tail have anything interesting? What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/hde? Have you been able to mount other vfat filesystems with this kernel, perhaps a floppy or usb flash drive? Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount vfat partition
Colin wrote: I just can't mount this FAT32 partition: /dev/hde5 /home/colin/Documents vfat uid=colin,umask=122 0 0 When I try to mount it, I get this error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde5, or too many mounted file systems I've tried every mount command I could think of. It mounted under the LiveCD. Yes, I've compiled in msdos, VFAT and NTFS support, but it just refuses to mount. FAT32 needs the correct codepage selected to mount the FS. You have to compile them in your kernel and select the correct one as default, or specify it on the commandline: for example: $ mount -o codepage=cp850 /dev/hde5 /mnt/point Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount vfat partition
Zac Medico wrote: Colin wrote: I just can't mount this FAT32 partition: /dev/hde5 /home/colin/Documents vfat uid=colin,umask=122 0 0 When I try to mount it, I get this error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde5, or too many mounted file systems I've tried every mount command I could think of. It mounted under the LiveCD. Yes, I've compiled in msdos, VFAT and NTFS support, but it just refuses to mount. -- Colin After you try to mount does the output of dmesg|tail have anything interesting? What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/hde? Have you been able to mount other vfat filesystems with this kernel, perhaps a floppy or usb flash drive? Found it! It was complaining about the iocharset iso-8859-1 not existing. I must have mistyped that when I was building the kernel. I just stuck iocharset=iso8859-1 into my fstab and now it mounted just fine. Thanks for the tip, didn't expect to find that in dmesg--I thought that was just for boot-up messages. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
