On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 03:38, listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 Assuming you want to nuke /dev/hdb1 and use FAT32 (vfat): # mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdb1 One thing I will note about this. Real Windows doesn't always like partitions made this way (at least for booting). I think it has to do with cylinder boundaries. Keeping a win98 emergency boot disk around for this purpose is a good idea. -- Chris Kloiber Red Hat, Inc.
