Can't Mount Fat32 partition

justanothersteve · 08-06-2006, 10:15 PM

I am having a problem mounting my fat32 partition. It keeps returning

Code:

cetra linux # mount /music
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

I have made sure that MS-DOS and FAT filesystems are compiled into my kernel. Dmesg returns with:

Code:

FAT: codepage cp850 not found

Here is my fstab:

Code:

/dev/hda2       /boot           reiserfs        noauto,noatime,notail   1 2
/dev/hda3       /               reiserfs        noatime,notail          0 1
/dev/hda4       /home           reiserfs        noatime,notail          0 0
/dev/hdb1       /music          auto            noatime,                0 0
/dev/hdb2       none            swap            sw                      0 0
/dev/hdc        /dvd            auto            noauto,ro               0 0
/dev/hdd        /cdr            auto            noauto,ro               0 0
/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto                  0 0

proc                    /proc           proc            defaults        0 0
shm                     /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec    0 0

The partition exists, here's fdisk -l

Code:

cetra linux # fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Disk /dev/hdb: 13.5 GB, 13578485760 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26310 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1       23252    11718976+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb2           23253       26310     1541232   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Any Ideas on how to mount this partition?

runnerfrog · 08-06-2006, 11:03 PM

Greets. Did you already tried by hand like this?:
# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /music
or may be modifying this line:
/dev/hdb1 /music auto noatime, 0 0
like this?:
/dev/hdb1 /music vfat defaults,noatime 0 0

zhangmaike · 08-06-2006, 11:03 PM

Code:

FAT: codepage cp850 not found

Check your kernel config. Make sure NLS_CODEPAGE_850 is enabled. In make menuconfig (for 2.6 kernels) it can be found in:

File systems -> Native Language Support -> Codepage 850 (Europe)

justanothersteve · 08-06-2006, 11:34 PM

runnerfrog: both of those suggestions yielded the same results

zhangmaike: that is what is listed in my kernel config.

zhangmaike · 08-06-2006, 11:53 PM

Is codepage 850 set to be built-in or built as a module?

justanothersteve · 08-07-2006, 12:06 AM

its set to be built in......is it the correct codepage?

zhangmaike · 08-07-2006, 02:09 AM

Sure looks like it... I've never had this error, nor do I routinely mount FAT filesystems, but the only codepage listed anywhere in the kernel config containing the number 850 is the one that you apparently already have built in.

Any other kernel messages mentioning cp850?

runnerfrog · 08-07-2006, 03:22 PM

The best way of having installed the codepages -in my experience- is as modules.
So let's try to change for utf8 instead, in fstab:
/dev/hdb1 /music vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007 0 1
and reboot, just in case we're messing with automount; many people say that rebooting is the best way of restarting automount (but: /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs reload). If it works, eventually you can add "noatime".
To see messages about automount (just in case): tail -100 /var/log/messages | grep automount