I run this command to mount my DOS''s "C:" drive in linux, I keep getting this error:

[root@www /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
       or too many mounted file systems
 

I''ve checked the manpage for mount and the above conforms to it (or so i guess). Does anyone know, if I''m using any wrong parameters with mount? thanks

here is the fdisk o/p of /dev/hda, if its of any use:

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System/dev/hda1   *         1       638   5124703+   b  Win95 FAT32/dev/hda2           639      1000   2907765   83  Linux/dev/hda3          1001      1245   1967962+  82  Linux swap 

try

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos -t vfat 

thanks for the above post, but I get that very same error :/

I also tried: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos -t msdos (but the same error again)..

BTW I can boot windows on that partition absolutely okay.. I''ve also tried running scandisk & ndd (for surface) when running windows without any reported problems

i don''t remember if fat fs support is built into the kernel or not, but you might want to check and see if you have it installed. what distro are you running? and in the (unlikely) event that it''s actually too many mounted filesystems, what else is mounted when you try to run this?

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Original post by cyanide
I run this command to mount my DOS''s "C:" drive in linux, I keep getting this error:

[root@www /root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosmount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,       or too many mounted file systems  

I''ve checked the manpage for mount and the above conforms to it (or so i guess). Does anyone know, if I''m using any wrong parameters with mount?

thanks

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Recompile the kernel with VFat enabled. Some distro don''t have that option compiled in.

thanks for the replies.. Just wanted to make sure if it wasn''t something that I was doing wrong or missing any prerequisites to loading the dos drive..
That machine is still on an RH 6.2 installation (its basically for testing my sites offline, so i didn''t want to mess with it in anyway but I guess its time for me to upgrade to RH 9 and that should take care of these vfat problem too

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Original post by cyanide
That machine is still on an RH 6.2 installation (its basically for testing my sites offline, so i didn''t want to mess with it in anyway but I guess its time for me to upgrade to RH 9 and that should take care of these vfat problem too

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No, checking that your kernel has VFAT support built in or has a VFAT loadable module available does. Not every Linux user has a DOS partition lying about somewhere, even if they run Windows on the same machine (some only have FAT32 or NTFS), so RedHat 9 may also not have VFAT enabled by default. Rebuilding the kernel and make sure it''s in there is one way to do things; checking the current kernel config is another way; and yet a third is checking for the availability of a loadable module for your kernel.

Good luck.

Ok, I did that.. Also using make menuconfig I also changed all the modules () to built in (<*>) for:

DOS FAT fs supportMSDOS fs supportUMSDOS: Unix-like filesystem on top of standard MSDOS filesystemVFAT (Windows-95) fs support 

and then recompiled the kernel but I still have that darned error with mount. Anyway thanks for the ideas