Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

[Rick Stevens]

Chadley Wilson wrote:
> 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.

IIRC, if you used dd to grab the CD's data from a raw device, e.g.
"dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/some/file", then "/some/file" will be an ISO
image since you grabbed the sector-by-sector layout of the disk.  This
is handy to make copies of CDs.  I've done it many times.
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