Can't mount my fat32 drive

bennyp · 05-05-2003, 07:53 PM

I have 40 gigs of pure media on /dev/hda itching to be unleashed upon my room if only it could!!!

Mount:

Code:

/dev/hdb2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hdb5 on /mnt/win type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,user=bennyp)

FDisk -l

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda2   *         1      4982  40017883+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3739 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2            14      3202  25615642+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb3          3203      3222    160650   82  Linux swap
/dev/hdb4          3223      3739   4152802+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5          3223      3739   4152771   83  Linux

/etc/fstab/

Code:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
LABEL=/mnt/win          /mnt/win                ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda                /media                  vfat    noauto,users,rw,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/hdb3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

so what's the prognosis, docs??

angelrod · 05-05-2003, 08:03 PM

have you tried?:

mount /media

(this should work because it is on your fstab)

or make a dir, for example /mnt/media and type:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/media

bennyp · 05-05-2003, 08:18 PM

[root@localhost bennyp]# mount /media
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,
or too many mounted file systems
[root@localhost bennyp]#

michaelk · 05-05-2003, 08:22 PM

Change references from /dev/hda to /dev/hda2.

If you want it to mount on boot delete noauto option.

There is a ton of posts on this site on how to mount a FAT32 partition.

chem1 · 05-05-2003, 08:22 PM

Do this
1) on command line type parted
check which /dev parted i giving you info about : /dev/hda or /devhdb
2) on parted prompt type print
tell us what the print out is. I solved this problem in 3 days. You should be able to do it in 1 minute if you can give me the above printout

Hope that helps...

macewan · 05-05-2003, 08:26 PM

su
mkdir /mnt/fred
mount -t auto /dev/hda /mnt/fred

rufius · 05-05-2003, 09:31 PM

Did you enable Fat32 support in your kernel? That may be a problem.

bennyp · 05-05-2003, 10:22 PM

thatnks alot guys, especially to michaelk!!!
i know there have been [b]enough[.b] posts on the subject but none of em solved my (pretty boneheaded) problem
thanks!!

zenci · 05-19-2003, 12:54 AM

is it hard to enable vfat support?
(redhat9)

martylinux · 11-17-2003, 10:00 PM

17-Nov-2003, 11:08 PM

This might be very late, but for those who come across this later.
Mostly, I'm putting this here so that it will show up in a search
engine.

1. Add the following as the last line in your /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/fat32 vfat auto,user,rw,umask=000 0 0

2. Then execute the command line:
mount -a

This will allow any user read/write access to your fat32 hard drive.

My setup was:
PC - Running RedHat 9.0.93
hdb - 60GB IDE
hdb1 - The only partition
A primary partition
Formatted as fat32 in Windows

Note: I've also used a 120GB Hard Drive in the same way.