[CentOS] Can't mount FAT32 partition

Craig White

craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Aug 30 16:13:13 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 01:04 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> The partition has Windows XP on it, and it boots fine and as far as I 
> can tell operates without any problems. I don't think that drive has any 
> intrinsic errors on it.
> I've run chkdisk and scandisk and defragmented the drive, and I don't 
> know what else I can do in Windows to make sure the drive is okay. All 
> indications are that it's alright.
> 
> I there anything else I can do Linux-side to mount this partition?
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let's assume that it isn't mounted...(if mounted, 'umount /dev/hda1')

fdisk -l /dev/hda

does fdisk agree that it's a Fat volume? What type?

and I sort of agree with someone else's previous suggestion to see if
you can mount it from command line first before trying to mount via
fstab.

Craig




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