Cannot mount vfat

bsdpowa · 07-28-2005, 06:55 AM

I have two partitions NTFS (WindowsXP) and EXT2 (FC4) and after Fedora installation I couldn't mount the windows partition.The funny thing is that it worked before (every time I installed *nix and win) but it doesn't want to work now.

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
[root@localhost ~]#

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | tail
SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda1.
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda1.

Code:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/                 /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
/dev/devpts             /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/shm                /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/proc               /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sys                /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda1               /mnt/win                vfat    auto,umask=0    0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder       auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

oneandoneis2 · 07-28-2005, 07:30 AM

It's an NTFS filesystem, why are you trying to mount it as VFAT??

shabin · 07-28-2005, 07:33 AM

dear friend i find similar problem in RH 9 . its because of fedora is not supporting ntfs.
u can cleared this problem by installing an rpm . i am not remembering the name . u can get it from net .but i dont know whether it will work for fedora .

bsdpowa · 07-28-2005, 08:56 AM

oneandoneis2: It worked fine on all previous flavours and version of Linux.
shabin: what .rpm are you talking about? Do you know the name?

oneandoneis2 · 07-28-2005, 09:18 AM

You *are* aware that NTFS is a totally different filesystem to VFAT. . . right. . ?

bsdpowa · 07-28-2005, 09:22 AM

Yes.
I fixed the problem.I installed a NTFS driver for Linux and it works now...but I'm still angry about it since it worked before.Anyway, if someone experienc/ed/es the same problem, you should check http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net.
Thank you guys for your time.