Did you actually run a Windows "format" on that partition to get a real PCFS?
The steps you listed only created a PARTITION into which you could then really
create a FAT FS.. But you did not yet really CREATE that FAT FS, right?
Matthias
You (Sarah.kho) wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Thank you for helping me on this.
>
> before applying mkfs I tried the mount command as follow:
>
> mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c9t1d4p0 /media/s
>
> The command returns the following error:
>
> mount: /dev/dsk/c9t1d4p0 is not a DOS filesystem.
>
> So I tried the fstyp command on that partition and it says:
>
> unknown_fstyp (no matches)
>
>
> Now I tried to use mkfs as follow:
>
> mkfs pcfs /dev/dsk/c9t1d4p0
>
> it returns the following error:
> mkfs: Operation not applicable for FSType nfs
>
> I tried P0-p9 and it did not work.
>
> To ensure that the partition is there, I used format > fdisk command again
> and the partition is there:
>
> Cylinders
> Partition Status Type Start End Length %
> ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
> 1 Active Win95 FAT32 1 1022 1022 100
>
>
>
> What do I miss here? Does fstyp and mkfs works on raw devices or on block
> devices? I tried them on both ..../rdsk/... and .../dsk/.... and the result
> was the same.
>
>
> If you cached what I am doing wrong, please let me know.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:53 PM, E. Mike Durbin [via Opensolaris General
> discuss mail-list]
> <[email protected]<ml-node%[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> > Close!
> >
> > All the partitions that end in sN (e.g. s0) are Solaris partitions (aka
> > slices).
> > All the Solaris slices reside in one fdisk partition.
> >
> > All the fdisk partitions end in pN (e.g. p0)
> >
> > So ...
> >
> > use:
> >
> > mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c9t1d4p0 /media/s
> >
> >
> >
> > emike
> >
> >
> > On 04/14/2010 09:09 AM, Sarah.kho wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I created a fat32 partition using:
> > >
> > > format
> > > format>fdisk
> > > fdisk>1
> > > and then C for fat32.
> > >
> > > then I exit the fdisk and format. To make sure that the partition is
> > there,
> > > I entered the format and fdisk command and my partition was there (it was
> >
> > > active as well). The disk name is c9t1d4 so I assumed that the partition
> >
> > > name is c9t1d4s0 and used the following command to mount it
> > >
> > > mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c9t1d4s0 /media/s
> > >
> > > The error message for the above command is "mount: I/O error"
> > >
> > > I tried mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c9t1d4s0 /media/s for s1-s9 and it still
> > > returns the same error.
> > >
> > > Do you know what should I do to mount the partition?
> > >
> > > when i select the same disk in format command and then I try to enter
> > > partition command it shows the following error:
> > >
> > > "WARNING - This disk may be in use by an application that has
> > > modified the fdisk table. Ensure that this disk is
> > > not currently in use before proceeding to use fdisk."
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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