Wierd problem mounting fat32 partition on redhat 8
Hi,
I have a system with 3 partitions, 1 NTFS, 1 FAT32 and 1 ext3.
I just installed redhat 8 on my ext3 partition, and I want to mount the FAT32 partition since it is my shared partition between windows and linux.
Now, whenever I mount the FAT32 partition, I get no error message, everything looks fine, but I am denied write access to the partition, even as root. I had thought maybe the default was no write, so I explicitly specified the partition to be writable when mountable. Even then, I get no error message, just am not able to write to the partition.
Also, I added an entry to /etc/fstab to automount the FAT32 partition on boot. I used the line below:
/dev/hda7 /mnt/d defaults 1 1
since I wanted the partition to be checked at boot time. Now I get a message at boot time saying that FAT32 support is ALPHA. Surely that is not the case? I have mounted FAT32 partitions on other, older distributions (Suse 8, debian 2.2) and it always worked without a glitch.
Could anyone shed some light on this??
By the way, I am using the default kernel - 2.4.18
FloppyColon
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