Hello,

I am trying to mount a FAT16 and FAT32 partition on an already installed Redhat system.

I have tried to edit the fstab and mtab, and to put in the data I got from fdisk, but it just says cannot find it.

The information given by fdisk on /dev/hda is:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 100 201568 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 101 658 1124928 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 626 658 66496 82 Linux Swap
/dev/hda6 101 625 1058337 83 Linux

my /etc/fstab contains:
LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

my /etc/mtab contains:
/dev/hda6 / ext2 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
automount(pid539) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=539,minproto=2,maxproto=3 0 0

I have been trying to figure out the changes myself but this is about the only subject I cannot locate *any* info on. This computer only has a FAT16 partition, but I also have another one that has a FAT32 partition that I would like to access, I poresume the methods are the same....

Cheers in advance

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regards,

-ghoti

I found it myself at last:

for anyone interested here is the solution:

if you know which hard drive the partition is on then use fdisk on that drive ('fdisk /dev/hda' for me) and type 'p' to get a list of partition info.

next you need to locate which poartition, I need to access hda1.

quit fdisk and make a directory to use as a mount point ('/home/win' for me)

edit the fstab to include the line
/dev/hda1 /home/win vfat defaults 0 0

and voila next time I boot, it is recognised.
If I just want to mount it once, I type:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /home/win

or mount -t [filesystem] [device] [mount point]

Happy days,

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-ghoti

Hi,

Have you tried adding the following to your /etc/fstab file:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos msdos auto

I think the msdos file type should work okay for fat16 filesystems.

For fat32 filesystems you'll need to add vfat for the fs type.

i.e. a partition named /dev/.hda8 add the following to fstab:

/dev/hda8 /mnt/fat32 vfat auto

Of course you'll need to ensure that the mount directories have been created before mounting the directories.

To mount the fat16 partition you'd type:

mount /mnt/msdos
or mount /dev/hda1

I hope this helps.

Andy

cheers,
The above solution is working fine for me, and I set file type to vfat (fat was not recognised as an option to mount) but it works fine for me.
When I tried DOS as a filesystem, it was rejected, I see now that I should have used MSDOS.
Cheers for the tip,

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regards,

-ghoti

That's okay.

Supported modules for your system's kernel can be found in:
/lib/modules/kernelversion*

* kernel version can be found from the /proc/system/kernel/osrelease file.

The exact location for modules can vary, on my system fs modules are in
/lib/modules/2.4.6/fs

Andy