Mount fat32 partition

[Nicolas Fortin]

Hi Bob,

Thank you for you quick answer, I really appreciate it. It seems that -t
option is mandatory. I typed "mount  /dev/hda8 /mnt/win" and I got this
message : "mount : you must specify the filesystem type". Also concerning
syslog, since I am a newbie, I am not sure to know which file you are
talking about. In fact, I have four syslog files :

/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog
/etc/sysconfig/syslog
/etc/logrotate.d/syslog
/var/lock/subsys/syslog

However, no one of these files seems to contain information about mounting.
Do you have any other idea ?

Best regards,

Nicolas

Bob wrote :

> Nicolas,
>
> What happens if you try the mount command without the -t type option?
> Also are there any messages in the syslog?
>
> Bob...

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 13:23, Nicolas Fortin wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I want to share a fat32 partition between Fedora and WinXP.  I created
> the
> mounted directory (/mnt/win) and tried the following command :
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda8 /mnt/win
>
> Unfortunately, I got this message :
>
> mount : wrong fs type, bad option bad superblock on /dev/hda8, or too
> may
> mounted file systems.
>
> I looked my partition details with "fdisk -l /dev/hda" but fdisk was
> not
> installed. So I tried fdisk from a bootable cd and according it,
> /dev/hda8
> is really a fat partition. I also attempted to add the following line
> in my
> /etc/fstab file :
>
> /dev/hda8   /mnt/win   vfat   noauto,user   0 0
>
> but I am still stuck with the same message when Fedora is lauched.
>
> Now, I simply don't know what to do. I will be glad if anyone could
> help me.
>
> Nicolas
>