Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

Chadley Wilson chadley at pinteq.co.za
Tue Apr 6 23:10:26 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 00:54, Andy Green wrote:
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> On Tuesday 06 April 2004 23:44, Chadley Wilson wrote:
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> > Once you dd a file it becomes an iso
> > The correct command would be
> > mount -o loop -t iso9660 <file.img>
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> > Well I think this is correct and it did work and my win95 fat 16 drive
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> dd just copies raw data around... it does not recook the filesystem into 
> iso9660 like mkisofs.  I think you must be mis-remembering.
> 
> - -Andy

Possible it was a while ago. :-}
But I actually can't remeber which list it was but I got the command
from some one I'll scratch around for you.
What I can remember is I also had trouble with the vfat|msdos|umsdos
options.

Later...
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