On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 12:23, 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 > 1. You must be root (under most conditions) to perform a mount. If you are in as root then fdisk will work. It is located at /sbin/fdisk. 2. Are you certain the partition is vfat? Filesystems of type vfat are NOT fat, and vice versa. In other words, a fat filesystem cannot be mounted with the -t vfat option. Try "fdisk -l /dev/hda" and see what filesystem type it actually is, then use that type for the -t option to your mount command. > 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 > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
