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Mounting a FAT32 XP partition w fst
Name: rob Date: April 20, 2003 at 07:45:25 Pacific OS: Redhat 8 CPU/Ram: athlon / 256
Comment:
hi all,
When trying to mount my FAT32 XP partition through fstab using
/dev/hda2 /mnt/music vfat auto 1 1
, I get the following error message. Can anyone please help me out
thanks rob
Error me-----
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?)
Name: Balram Adlakha Date: April 20, 2003 at 11:40:44 Pacific
Reply:
ya so aren't you trying to mount an extended partitition, instead of some logical partition inside?
type the following as root on the command-line:
fdisk /dev/hda2
and then press "p"
you will see that there are many logical partitions inside /dev/hda2. You need to find out which one is your music partition and use that instead. press "q" to exit fdisk.
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