Re: 2.2.0pre3 won't mount my FAT32 partitions

Joseph Anthony (jga@alien.cowboy.net)
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:46:03 -0600 (EST)


I use vfat and they mount ok for me

On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Francis DEVEREUX wrote:

> I have 3 FAT32 partitions:
> /dev/hda2 * 2 439 3518235 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda5 440 637 1590403+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hdc2 262 699 3518235 b Win95 FAT32
>
> They all have 4K clusters. I am unable to mount any of them under
> 2.2.0-pre3:
>
> [root@gecko /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
> or too many mounted file systems
> [root@gecko /root]# tail -2 /var/log/messages
> Jan 2 18:44:34 gecko kernel: fat_read_super: Bad fsinfo_offset
> Jan 2 18:44:34 gecko kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem
> on dev 03:02.
>
> I get the same errors for all 3 partitions.
>
> Howerver, I am able to mount VFAT floppies.
>
> Francis
>
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