Help with partitions

stevemad · 12-06-2004, 02:31 PM

Hi,

I have a vfat partition (/dev/hda3) and during the installation I have mounted to /fat1.
Now I want to mount it at /mnt/fat1. I have edit /etc/fstab but the partition remains at /fat1?

Any ideas?

david_ross · 12-06-2004, 02:36 PM

Did you remount it?
mkdir -p /mnt/fat1
umount /fat1
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/fat1

stevemad · 12-06-2004, 03:01 PM

Thanks for your quick response.

I think there is a problem with this partition...

After reboot...

Code:

root@fileserver:~# umount /dev/hda3
umount: /dev/hda3: not mounted

fstab file

Code:

/dev/hda2        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/hda1        /                ext3        defaults         1   1
/dev/hda3        /mnt/fat1         vfat        defaults,codepage=737,iocharset=iso8859-7         1   0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0

But the /fat1 directory still have files!

ferks · 12-06-2004, 05:34 PM

umount would unmount the partition, use mount to mount it

ringwraith · 12-06-2004, 05:51 PM

You would need to set to auto, if you want it mounted at boot.

stevemad · 12-07-2004, 04:49 PM

I use the command

mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/fat1

and I take the following answer

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3,
or too many mounted file systems

I know the fs type is not wrong
What else could be happening?

phase9 · 12-07-2004, 05:57 PM

Hi!

Quote:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3,
or too many mounted file systems

This seems to be the generic system message for some invalid mount option.

I mount my vfat partions with the following options:

Code:

/dev/hdxy	/<mount point>	vfat	noauto,users,umask=022	1 0

Try to change your /etc/fstab (before, unmount /dev/hda3 or reboot). After that, mounting and unmounting should hopefully work.

stevemad · 12-07-2004, 08:40 PM

thank you all a lot!
It's working now