Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with vfat partition

2005-12-14 Thread maxim wexler 


--- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 15:23 -0800, maxim wexler
 wrote:
  Hello everybody,
  
  I have a spare partition formatted as FAT 32 on an
 IDE
  disk. 
  
  vfat and ide-disk support was compiled into the
  kernel.
 
 as a module or built-in ?

Dang! compiled into == _not_ a module

 
  But #mount -t vfat responds w/ unknown fs type
 'vfat'.
 
 What does /var/log/messages show during this
 command?

nothing



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[gentoo-user] trouble with vfat partition

2005-12-13 Thread maxim wexler 
Hello everybody,

I have a spare partition formatted as FAT 32 on an IDE
disk. 

vfat and ide-disk support was compiled into the
kernel. Partition was created with fdisk and given ID:
b W95 FAT32 and formatted using mkdosfs -F 32. The
partition is visible in windows, properties FAT32.

But #mount -t vfat responds w/ unknown fs type 'vfat'.
Even w/ -t auto it replies unknown fs 'vfat'. All
other partitions, ext2, reiserfs, ntfs mount OK.

I must be missing something but can't think what.

-mw



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Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with vfat partition

2005-12-13 Thread Iain Buchanan 
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 15:23 -0800, maxim wexler wrote:
 Hello everybody,
 
 I have a spare partition formatted as FAT 32 on an IDE
 disk. 
 
 vfat and ide-disk support was compiled into the
 kernel.

as a module or built-in ?

 But #mount -t vfat responds w/ unknown fs type 'vfat'.

What does /var/log/messages show during this command?

 Even w/ -t auto it replies unknown fs 'vfat'. All
 other partitions, ext2, reiserfs, ntfs mount OK.

sounds like you haven't got the module loaded.  What does
`grep VFAT /usr/src/linux/.config`
show? (replace /usr/src/linux/.config with wherever your kernel config
file is)

You could also try `modprobe vfat` before you mount the disk

HTH,
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