Accessing FAT32

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at redhat.com
Sun Apr 11 06:29:38 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 14:26, Satheesh Babu Vemasani wrote:
> I have a dual boot on my machine Windows 2000 server and RH 9 both on
> two different hard drives. I have 4 partitions on one hard drive on
> which Windows is installed. one partition out of these 4 is FAT 32
> which i would like to access from RH 9.
>  
>  I tried mounting with the following but of no use.
>  
> mount -t DOS /dev/hdb4 /mnt/windows
> mount -t MSDOS /dev/hdb4 /mnt/windows
> mount -t DOS /dev/hda4 /mnt/windows
> mount -t MSDOS /dev/hda4 /mnt/windows
>  
> It says DOS file system does not exist. My '/' and '/boot' are ext2
> file systems. I would like to have another partion for FC1. 
>  
> How can i access this FAT 32  partition from RH 9 ?
>  
> Thanks,
> Satheesh

This isn't a list for RHL9, but the instructions are the same.

Try -t vfat instead.

-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCX
Red Hat, Inc.






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