On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 18:23, 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. fdisk is in /sbin, which won't be in your PATH if you just use "su" to switch user to root. Try "su -" instead. > 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. Is the FAT partition previous formatted (in Windows?) or is it a newly-created partition? If new, you'll need to create the FAT filesystem on it before you can mount it: /sbin/mkfs.vfat /dev/hda8 (this will, of course, trash any data you may have on that partition) Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
