Linux

Hello,

I am trying to mount an external USB drive connected to a SnapServer 410 ( a network file server running a linux OS called Guardian OS).

THanks to some articles on the the web, I found that I needed to use the following command:

> mount -t vfat /dev/sde /mnt/usbext

unfortunately i get the following error message when the command executes:

> mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel

The drive is a FAT32 drive so I am guessing I may be out of luck until I can reformat the drive but before I do, I wanted to make sure what filetypes are supported.

How do I find out what filetypes are supproted by my kernel?

When I use the uname -r command, the result is 2.4.19-gos-up

Thank you for your assistance.

you will probably have to add msdosfs support into your kernel. i use freebsd and not linux, so im not sure how the whole kernel compiling thing and all that works with linux so i wont be of any help to u there.

Thanks for the tip. Adding support to my kernel may not be possible and is certainly beyond my level of unix knowledge.

So other suggestions are still welcome.

Maybe you can try this command

modprobe vfat

and then you can mount you FAT system again

Thanks for the suggestion starlimac.

When I issue the modprobe command as you suggested, I get the response:
"modprobe: can't locate module vfat"

Hi
Can you give exactly your operating system or name of your distribution Linux.

Hi I gave what I could in my original post. The OS is called Guardian OS. The OS Version is 4.4.049 SP3.

a uname command results in: 2.4.19-gos-up