Fat 32
 

Hi

I start up red hat linux an it say that it cant find hda5 as fat 32 it says it has no type but winblowz ME say it is fat 32


what do i do

run "fdisk -l" this should list all partitions and their types. check it says the right type. if it IS fat32 and not NTFS, then the FS module you need is "vfat"

mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows

if this does not answer your question, please provide more informatino, as you've not mentioned at all what you've actually tried.

Fdisk gave me this:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 5737 46082421 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 * 5738 9561 30716280 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 9562 9594 265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 9595 15017 43560247+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 9595 15017 43560216 b Win95 FAT32


so i set my disk to vfat in fstab

and during boot up and mounting i get:

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems

Just a couple of thaughts. Have you tried mounting it directly ie
mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/msdos
Second thaught does your kernel support vfat you need it compiled in or available as a module