Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

Chadley Wilson chadley at pinteq.co.za
Wed Apr 7 20:23:23 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 22:08, Andy Green wrote:
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> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 20:45, Chadley Wilson wrote:
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> > I am not looking for a fight but I did it again and it works heres the
> > outputs as proof, I don't know maybe I suffer from a bug that works in
> > my favour :~}
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> Possibly mount ignored your -t iso9660 ?  Type mount on its own to see what 
> filesystem type it is actually mounted as.
> 
> Since I'm sure you wouldn't bring this up unless it was true, the other 
> possibilities I can imagine is that your ripping action encoded it to iso9660 
> via a pipe to mkisofs, you dd'd it from a CD backup in a CD drive, or dd has 
> hidden and mysterious powers until now kept secret from me - and from man 
> dd :-)
> 
Ha ha! Did I ever tell you that there's a genie in my PC. :~D

Well as I said it must be my buggy system [or the genie] working in my
favour for once.
I actually created the img from a drive connected to a USB unit with dd,
and whats more is I have no idea how to pipe dd to mkisofs so it can't
be that.
The only thing I can think of is maybe I used mkisofs. But the problem
there is I don't know how to use it. I have always been happy with dd.
Anyway sorry for the bad advice, at least you can see where I got it
from, regardless of how weird it may seem.

Terribly sorry Guolin please ignore that piece of bad advise, I will
have to investigate why this worked for me. It is the first time I have
done this as well and it worked! So I thought I could help you!
I will wait for my next recovery job next week sometime and c if I can
replicate it.


anyway cheers for now

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