Hi Bob, Thank you for you quick answer, I really appreciate it. It seems that -t option is mandatory. I typed "mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/win" and I got this message : "mount : you must specify the filesystem type". Also concerning syslog, since I am a newbie, I am not sure to know which file you are talking about. In fact, I have four syslog files : /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog /etc/sysconfig/syslog /etc/logrotate.d/syslog /var/lock/subsys/syslog However, no one of these files seems to contain information about mounting. Do you have any other idea ? Best regards, Nicolas Bob wrote : > Nicolas, > > What happens if you try the mount command without the -t type option? > Also are there any messages in the syslog? > > Bob... On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 13:23, Nicolas Fortin wrote: > Hi folks, > > I want to share a fat32 partition between Fedora and WinXP. I created > the > mounted directory (/mnt/win) and tried the following command : > > mount -t vfat /dev/hda8 /mnt/win > > Unfortunately, I got this message : > > mount : wrong fs type, bad option bad superblock on /dev/hda8, or too > may > mounted file systems. > > I looked my partition details with "fdisk -l /dev/hda" but fdisk was > not > installed. So I tried fdisk from a bootable cd and according it, > /dev/hda8 > is really a fat partition. I also attempted to add the following line > in my > /etc/fstab file : > > /dev/hda8 /mnt/win vfat noauto,user 0 0 > > but I am still stuck with the same message when Fedora is lauched. > > Now, I simply don't know what to do. I will be glad if anyone could > help me. > > Nicolas >
