What rubbish vfat *IS* fat32
Cheerio
Robin
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From: Jiju Thomas Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] mount failing on fat32
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, Ghins Mathai chose to inform us:
> > When I try to mount a fat32 partition as:
> > mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dosc
> > I get the following error:
> >
> > [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=1939329,ls=512]
> > Transaction block size = 512
> > VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:01.
>
> type vfat is fat 16 with long file names and not fat32, for fat32, some
one has
> to find a kernel support, so you are as good as stuck
>
> Jiju
>
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