[CentOS] Can't mount FAT32 partition

Dave Gutteridge dave at tokyocomedy.com
Tue Aug 30 10:21:09 UTC 2005


>Rather than editing /etc/fstab and adding a lot of mount flags to the
>mix, start with the basics. Can you do the following as root:
>mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
>  
>
[root at localhost ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
       or too many mounted file systems

>If yes, then it is a matter of working out the proper flags. If not,
>then the file system could be corrupt. When you try the mount command
>above, do you see any errors in /var/log/messages or dmesg output?
>  
>

This is in /var/log/messages:
Aug 30 19:16:50 localhost kernel: FAT: invalid first entry of FAT 
(0xffffff8 != 0x1)
Aug 30 19:16:50 localhost kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem 
on dev hda1.

So it thinks it's not a valid FAT system. It seems to work okay in 
Windows... is there a possibility that there are different kinds of FAT32?

Dave




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