On 08/12/00, 12:47:59PM -0400, John Blackmore wrote:
> Well, whaddya know, a Winblows 98 start disk gave me access to all 3 drives
> I thought were lost. Now what do I do? It seems I should be able to mount
> them in Linux as "vfat". Now that I'm here, here's exactly what's happening:
>
> I try "mount -r -t vfat /dev/hda5 /d" as root
My /etc/vfat entry to auto mount my Windows C: Drive looks like this:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/vfat vfat user,owner,exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,uid=500,gid=500,auto 1 2
It works just fine for me.
>
> I get "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, or too
> many mounted file systems"
>
> I seriously doubt it's the latter, I only have / mounted otherwise.
>
> Some more history, I've checked fdisk in linux, it says they're 'Win95
> FAT32' drives. The HOWTO says to use 'vfat' to mount. I've also verified
> that vfat.o exists in /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/fs.
>
> I think I may try formatting one of these to DOS and using it as a transfer
> point, hoping that will work. Anyone have a better suggestion? Thanks a lot
> for the help.
>
> -John
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roadrunner
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 5:35 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: reading FAT32
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> This is only a small suggestion, but can't you boot up your computer with a
> MS-DOS bootdisk to, at least, see if there is any data to be saved?
> I don't know if you can see partitions beyond C:\, but I think it worth the
> shot.
>
> I know I keep on dragging about Microsoft, but that's something i really
> (well, kinda) know.
>
>
> Remon
>
>
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Datum: maandag 7 augustus 2000 7:22
> Onderwerp: RE: reading FAT32
>
>
> >On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> >> No can do, all drives are on the same physical device. Probably should
> have
> >> tried that before installing RH. Dang.
> >>
> >Man, this is a REAL puzzler... I'll be interested to know if you can
> >salvage the windows partitions!
> > John
> >
> >
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