[expert] mounting FAT partition

[David van Balen]

I'm trying to mount a FAT partition under Linux that I originally created
(formatted as fat16) under WinNT so that I could put the LM6.1 install
files on it. It's the third partition on my master HDD which is 4.3G (the
partition itself is about 1.4G).
It appears to mount ok at boot and I can cd to it, but when I run an ls on
it, I get a screenful of "Directory sread (sector 0x1db) failed" errors.
When running X, I just get an empty directory listing (i.e. "Total 0" with
ls -l). Yes, the LM6.1 files are still on there so I should get something
when running ls...
My /etc/fstab entry looks like this:

/dev/hda3               /mnt/mp3                auto    user,umask=0222 0
0

I originally tried it with "msdos" instead of "auto" and had the same
problem.


David van Balen                         mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Box 5054                                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clinton, MS 39058                       http://www.mc.edu/~vanbalen