Problrm mounting a Fat32 partition

owain · 04-18-2004, 09:58 AM

I have a Fat32 partition set up to exchange files to Windows, but I'm having problems mounting. I get the following error in boot.log:

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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, or too many mounted file systems

fstab has the following entry:

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/dev/hda5 /windows/E vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,code=437,codepage=850,gid=users,users 0

Once booted (Mandrake 10 CE), I can mount the partition manually, but despite having full permissions I am unable to write to it.

Any ideas?

shobhit · 04-18-2004, 10:17 AM

try editing the line to
/mnt/hda5 /window/E defaults user 0 0
the user option 4th field will allow you to write to that partition

michaelk · 04-18-2004, 11:39 AM

I do not see anything obviously wrong. I've read where umask=000 worked where umask=0 didn't.

/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows/E vfat umask=000,users 0 0

Actually the umask=0 option allows writing to a vfat partition.

The difference between user and users:
user - only the user that mounted the filesystem can unmount it.
users - any user can unmount the filesystem.
See man mount & fstab for additiona info

Are you mounting as a regular user or root?

Are you sure /dev/hda5 is the correct partition?

Did you add the entry or was this done by the MDK installer.

As a reference post the entire fstab file.

owain · 04-18-2004, 02:29 PM

I'm afraid neither of these suggestions changed the error. Here's the complete fstab (which is unchanged from Mandrake's setup, and yes hda5 is the correct partition):

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/dev/hda4 / reiserfs notail,defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro,gid=users,users 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /windows/D ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro,gid=users,users 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/E vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,code=437,codepage=850,gid=users,users 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap pri=42 0 0
none /mnt/hd supermount dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0