Mount fat32 partition

[David Cary Hart]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 18:15, Aly Dharshi wrote:

> 	Haven't tried an fdisk -l but the hardware browser program (/usr/bin/hwbrowser) 
> reports that partition as an unknown filesystem. Has anybody been able to use 
> Windows XP SP2 to make a FAT/FAT32 partition and then get it mounted under 
> Fedora Core 2 ? Any pointers would be good. Thanks.

Absolutely. Which kernel? Stock or custom?

Did you create the directory "mnt/win" first? Are you sure that you are
not selecting the wrong partition (NTFS)? Do a fdisk -l. 
> 
> 	PS: When my buddy booted back into Windows the FAT partition said do you want 
> to format and put an FS on it, basically he shit a brick, but used some recovery 
> tools to get to the files that he has on that partition (phew). So don't know 
> what is going on there unless XP SP2 is quite crap like the rest of the OS that 
> it doesn't know what is going on.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Aly.
> 
> 
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