mounting another harddrive: Filesystem not supported

Arild2 · 10-30-2004, 07:45 AM

I've got two harddisks. On one(hda), I have installed Windows98, And it's almost full of files I want to reach from Linux, which I have installed on my second harddrive(that should be hdb, right?). On hdb I have also installed Windows98. Like the image below.

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So I do:

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mount -t Fat32 /dev/hda /mnt/gamlaC

and it says:

Code:

mount: fs type Fat32 not supported by kernel

And the same happens when I change Fat32 to fat32 or FAT32

If I do:

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mount -t ext2 /dev/hda /mnt/gamlaC

or change ext2 to ext3 or vfat, then it tells me

Code:

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

What to do?

musicman_ace · 10-30-2004, 07:59 AM

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gamlaC

assuming /mnt/gamlaC is there

michaelk · 10-30-2004, 08:00 AM

The man pages for mount will show all of the different file systems and their options. A FAT32 filesystem type is vfat. It appears that hda is just one partition. So:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/gamlaC

If /mnt/gamlac does not exist use the mkdir command to create the directory prior to mounting.

mkdir /mnt/gamlac

To see how the drive is partitioned (log in as root )
fdisk -l /dev/hda

This will show the partition IDs and their filesystem types.

Arild2 · 10-30-2004, 08:23 AM

Oh, yes. Thank you. Seems like the problem was that I wrote "hda" instead of "hda1". Now I can reach my old files