Problems with mounting fat32 partition in RHEL 5
I'm trying to mount a fat32 partition in RHEL 5 and it isn't working. First off, the OS doesn't just auto detect the partition and mount it, which I've seen it done in Fedora 9. I also tried the mount command and it says that it can't find dev/sda3 (which is the Fat32 drive) in /etc/fstab or in /etc/mtab.
Anyone have any sugestion on how to get this guy mounted? Its really important that I get this partition mounted. |
Can you post the full command when you try to mount it on the command line and also the exact error output you are seeing?
Also, the output of fdisk, listing your partitions. |
for this the same should hold true for red hat as fedora
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su - mkdir /mnt/fat32 Code:
/dev/sdb3 /mnt/fat32 vfat defaults 0 0 |
the command I'm typing is
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mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 The other command is Code:
mount /dev/sda3 When I run fdisk this is what I get: Code:
Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device This current problem started after I installed RHEL 5 in the previous fedora partition (which was formatted before RHEL was installed of course). If anyone has any ideas on a better way on moving data between Windows and RHEL I'd really appreciate it. The only requirement that I have is that it has to be on the laptop and not through an external drive or some common server that both OS's use. Thanks for the help!!! |
John VV: I tried those commands and I got this error after doing
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mount -t vfat /mnt/fat32 /dev/sda3 |
oops i flip/flopped it should read
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su - --------------- su - mkdir /mnt/fat32 ------------------ this dose |
Yes I did that, but it either says /dev/sda3 doesn't exsist or that I don't have permission to access /dev/sda3, even though I'm logged in as root.
I downloaded gparted, it can see this partition, but it doesn't have a mount point, and I can't seem to figure out how to add a mount point for it via gparted. |
As root, what is the output of:
# /sbin/fdisk -lu /dev/sda # /sbin/fdisk -lu /dev/hda Is this a ATA drive? then it should be /dev/hdaX, if SCSI or SATA or USB, etc, it most likely will be /dev/sdaX (where X is a number) |
/sbin/fdisk -lu /dev/sda
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/dev/sda1 * 63 117210239 58605088+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /sbin/fdisk -lu /dev/hda shows nothing. |
i am not 100% sure on red hat maybe the folder /mnt is not there
how about trying Code:
su - Quote:
is there red hat should see the fat32 part. just like fedora did ??? Quote:
or setup nfs, samba and transfer them . |
I actually changed the drive from fat32 to ext2 and installed the ext2 patch in windows and that works.
Sadly though RHEL 5 doesn't seem to auto mount the drive, I have to mount it every time I boot up the OS, but it finds it and it works just fine via the /mnt directory. I'd still rather do this with the fat32 file system rather then ext2, but it is working. |
For some reason, I think that Red Hat does not turn on support for FAT32 in the kernel. At least they didn't used to, but I'm not sure if that is the case anymore.
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that defiantly makes sense, even though it is a stupid way to go about it.
Thanks for all the help! |
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I have no idea why, but on a different laptop, same model, with the same setup, I was able to mount the fat32 drive. No idea why
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