I'm trying to mount my flash drive with vfat so I can use long filenames, but it isn't working. I can, however, mount it with the msdos filesystem. Here is my line in fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat noauto,user,umask=000 0 0

And here is the error:

babylon:/# mount /mnt/flash
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so


I tried repartitioning and formatting the drive as fat32 with cfdisk/mkfs and with fdisk/format in Windows, and it still will only recognize it as msdos. If I try mounting with umsdos I get an unknown filesystem error, though I would like to be able to use vfat anyways.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

I searched around the forums a while longer and found someone with the same problem:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=293036

Just needed some native language support in the kernel and to recompile (which takes forever on this machine)

Fixed a problem I was having with drag-and-drop in x, too.

Try specify type b as the partition type in cfdisk or fdisk. Next disconnect it, and reconnect it. Finally, format it.

If you do not have support for a certain code page, you will have to re-compile. Then wait patiently.