Hello all,

First of all, I'm pretty new to linux, so don't blame me for things that look noobish . I've been trying to mount a FAT32 in linux, but without success. First I'll give the details of my setup:

Distro: Debian

Partition setup:

Disk /dev/hda: 4864 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 1274 1275- 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1275 4862 3588 28820610 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda5 1275+ 1280 6- 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1281+ 2555 1275- 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2556+ 2689 134- 1076323+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 2690+ 4862 2173- 17454591 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Fstab file:

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda6 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda8 /stuff vfat defaults
/dev/sda1 /mnt/Philips msdos auto

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Im trying to mount hda8 using:

mount /dev/hda8

The error I get is this:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda8,
or too many mounted file systems

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I have been google-ing alot, found issues about this problem, but none of them were relevant to my problem.

Help !!!

you might want to try and put this post in the hardware forum in order to get more help on it

Is this a new or existing partition?
Is it accessible via windows?

This filesystem should mount at boot up. Have you rebooted since modifing the fstab file? If so the mount command without any options will show all mounted filesystems.

Look at the output of dmesg for errors.

Existing Partition formatted as FAT32.

The partition is accessible under Windows and has data on it.

Yes I have rebooted, same error.

Where do I find the 'dmesg' ?

In a console window type the command dmesg.

Try mounting manually via root.

mount -t vfat /dev/hda8 /mnt/stuff

The dmesg resulted in these lines (of interest):

"FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors"
"VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda8"

But this is bullshit, windows can read this partition perfectly, and it has my project files and such. So the filesystem is fine.