** Reply to message from Rodolfo Canet-Castell? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 27 Nov
2002 13:02:15 +0100


> El mi?, 27-11-2002 a las 12:42, Emmanuel Seyman escribi?:
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:49:33AM +0100, Rodolfo Canet-Castell? wrote:
> > > 
> > > I guess you got it, Emmanuel. The output is FAT16<32 M
> > > The pity is that filesystem isn't reckognized by the system. I'll see
> > > how to solve it...
> > 
> > Isn't recognized? I'ld swear my digital camera has that filesystem
> > and I can mount it without any problems.
> > 
> > Try the mount command using the filesystems msdos and fat.
> > 
> > Emmanuel
> 
> Hi
> 
> fat isn't recognized by the kernel. msdos doesn't work (as vfat or hfs
> don't either) because mount complains about "wrong filesystem, wrong
> option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many filesystems mounted"
> (translated from Spanish, cannot say about the original output). Because
> of this I got some feeling about not being a problem of filesystem (I
> guess vfat should work, as it does on XP and MacOS-X), but something
> different...

That is the typical error when you try to mount a device rather than a
partition. Ensure you are issuing:

mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/tmp

rather than

mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/tmp

I made ths error myself at first.

jb



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