Craig White wrote: > going back to what I said in reply to the first post - I have never been > able to format a vfat partition larger than 32 Gigabytes with Linux. By > extrapolation, I might figure that I would have a problem mounting a > vfat partition that is larger than 32 Gigabytes with Linux. > > Since it was Windows 98 and Windows 98 doesn't support NTFS, it has to > be vfat (Fat32). It is larger than 32 Gigabytes. This would seem to be > your issue. > > Unless someone else knows how to mount a vfat volume greater than 32 > Gigabytes on Linux, I've got such a beast: [james@kendrick ~]$ df -m /media/data/ Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda11 42427 35687 6741 85% /media/data [james@kendrick ~]$ mount | grep /media/data /dev/hda11 on /media/data type vfat (rw,gid=501,dmask=2,fmask=113) The gid, dmask, and fmask options are so that members of a selected group can write to the drive. I suspect I created it with mkdosfs (it's been a while). It mounts normally: [james@kendrick ~]$ grep /media/data /etc/fstab /dev/hda11 /media/data vfat defaults,gid=501,dmask=2,fmask=113 0 0 Linux, Windows 98 and Windows 2000 have handled it without problem or complaint. James. -- James Wilkinson | How about an Australian-language version? Exeter Devon UK | 'Your program just attempted an illegal instruction. E-mail address: james | No worries, mate.' @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- Paul Tomblin
