Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

[Rick Stevens]

Chadley Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 22:42, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Ok look I appoligise for taking over this thread I am leaving it alone
> after this response.
> 
> Hi Rick you are quite right about the CDs but if you where paying
> attention :~> you would see that I created this image from a Hard drive
> connected via a USB port not a cd. I know that with CDs it works, and
> what has got Andy interested is that fact that its not supposed to be
> possible to mount an image of a hdd as an iso9660.

What does "mount" say the filesystem is?  If the hdd partition is
iso9660 (and it certainly can be), it'll mount.

> Anyway thanks for your 2c. in truth I was just trying to help Guolin
> and it seems we are taking over his thread and not solving his problem.
> If need be I will start a new thread for this discussion,

Yeah, I'll butt out now.
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