Hi, I use vfat on RHL8/9 and FC1 to mount partitions with more than 2Gb (tried 6, 8 and 22Gb) from Win95, 98 and ME. No problems readgin and writing, but neither can create then (have to create/format using windoze). Scandisk has no complains. []s, Fernando Lozano > Clifford Snow wrote: > > >On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 14:03, AL wrote: > > > >>Any thoughts on this? I have a second hard drive located at HDD and it is a > >>single partition 80GB drive. When I try to mount it as root I get the error > >>"mount: fs type fat not supported by kernel." I currently have fat support > >>loaded as a module. It shows up when I do lsmod, but its not in the kernel. > >>At least it doesn't show up when I do a "cat /proc/filesystems." > >> > > > >Sorry I don't have an answer for you, but check your clock. Your > >message is showing up with the wrong year (2002) > > > >Clifford > > > Its "vfat" rather than "fat" (to support more than 8.3 filenames) and > its normally limited to 2GB. The win95 vfat32 I've not tried mounting (I > don't have any partitions of that type) so that I have no experience of > so cannot say if it works or not. > > HTH > Chris > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
