Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:47, steve wrote:
Anybody got any good ideas as to how to make a partition and filesystem on the pendrive which will mount as a vfat? ( want something which will cope with long filenames and be portable across Linux, Win, and MacOS )
Make it a single linux partition ( 0x83 ), then mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 ( or whatever ).
Should work.
Indeed it _should_, but it doesn't.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/pendrive/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
or too many mounted file systems
and fdisk -l /dev/sda says...?
As it happens, I've just set three of these up in the last few days. One from dick sm*th had loads of strange partitions when delivered, whereas another had a single linux partition on it. Hmmm...This is always the result of mounting the vfat filesystems created my linux.
imho, the linux utilities for making dos/win vfat filesystems have all got a subtle bug in them.
Your original mail said that you set the partition up as a fat32? Have you tried it out using a linux partition? If this doesn't work, then I'd question whether your pen drive is working properly. My testing was done on a debian 2.4.24 kernel, and I was messing around with debian 2.6.4 earlier today. All pen/kernel combinations worked flawlessly.
Steve
