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Old 04-09-2006, 01:33 PM   #1
LinuxNewKnight
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Angry How to mount FAT32


HI. I'm a newbie. Finished installing Fedora core 4

I have 2 harddisk. on the terminal when i run the command fdisk -l
I get the below

[root@streetram bernardraj]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2599 20876436 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2600 2612 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2613 4811 17663467+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 4812 4998 1502077+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 4812 4998 1502046 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 9964 80035798+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
[root@streetram bernardraj]#

i need to mount the drive hdb to /home/bernardraj/LINUXSHARE It doesnt work ! Why ?

I get this message :
[root@streetram bernardraj]# mount -t fat32 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/home/bernardraj/LINUXSHARE
mount: mount point /mnt/home/bernardraj/LINUXSHARE does not exist
[root@streetram bernardraj]#

any one can help ? I have files that i want to share with windows
 
Old 04-09-2006, 01:37 PM   #2
Nylex
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The error tells you what the problem is - the directory you want to mount to doesn't exist. Create it with mkdir:

# mkdir /mnt/home/bernardraj/LINUXSHARE.

Edit: if you know the directory does exist, make sure you've got the capitalisation correct, case does matter under Linux!

Also, not sure if "fat32" is valid as a type. It may be, though I've always used "vfat" when mounting FAT 32 partitions.
 
Old 04-09-2006, 02:01 PM   #3
LinuxNewKnight
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yeah nylex it Worked..... the directory was created and it worked .................THANX
 
  


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