I just compiled a new kernel, but I can't mount my vfat partition.

Royle · 02-17-2005, 05:01 PM

Ok, so I just compiled a new kernel, but I can't mount my vfat partition. In my kernel I enabled MSDOS fs support, and VFAT(WINDOWS-95) fs support. In my fstab I have this :

Code:

/dev/hdb6       /share          vfat    uid=500,umask=000        0       2

Here's is what I get if I try to mount the partition:

Code:

mike:/home/mike# mount /dev/hdb6
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb6,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

or the same if I try

Code:

mike:/home/mike# mount /share   
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb6,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Is there something I left out of the kernel or am I doing something wrong? Any help is appreciated.

marghorp · 02-17-2005, 05:10 PM

maybe a missing 0 at umask?
umask=0000 instead of umask=000 might fix the problem...

Try mounting by hand:

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb6 /share

Royle · 02-17-2005, 05:17 PM

adding the 0 didn't help, and mounting by hand returned this:

Code:

mike:/home/mike# mount /dev/hdb6 
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb6,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Any other ideas? I was mounting this yesterday with an different kernel.

short101 · 02-17-2005, 07:18 PM

Check your kernel config. In the file systems part there is a section called native language support. Make sure you have codepage 850 checked NLS iso-8851 and any others that you need. Also the NLF uts8 module. Hope this helps.

Dead Parrot · 02-17-2005, 08:07 PM

First, check with the id command that your uid is really 500, but I think you don't really need to use uid or umask to access a vfat partition (although I might be wrong about this). I think a simple fstab line (supposing you've actually got the /share directory) like this should do the trick:

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/dev/hdb6 /share vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0

If that doesn't seem to work, you can try this line instead:

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/dev/hdb6 /share vfat rw,user,noauto,umask=0 0 0