Binand Raj S. saw fit to inform me that:
>>>>>> "Rajesh" == Rajesh Fowkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Rajesh> debian:~# mount -v -t vfat /dev/hda6 /mnt/data/ mount:
> Rajesh> wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda6, or
> Rajesh> too many mounted file systems
>
>Have you formatted the partition from windows? I think just marking a
>partition as FAT32 is enough, you need to format it with the
>appropriate OS dependent tool as well.
I finally decided to change the partition type to
extended win95 LBA
Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
and guess what now everything works fine. Now I can mount both
FAT32 partitions.
Here is my partition table now :
debian:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2096 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048256 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 256 766 4104607+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 767 961 1566337+ a5 BSD/386
/dev/hda4 962 2096 9116887+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 962 1326 2931831 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda6 1327 1691 2931831 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda7 1692 1946 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1947 1962 128488+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 1963 2096 1076323+ 83 Linux
debian:~#
Earlier /dev/hda4 was of type extended
and /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6 were of type Win95 FAT32.
Now that brings this question ? What is the difference between Win95 FAT32 and
Win95 FAT32 (LBA) ?
While creating partitions during installation of debian using cfdisk, there is no
way u can specify the type of extended partition. cfdisk assigns it as of type
extended and that seems to have given me the problem. But after using fdisk to
change the partition type as above now everything seems to be working fine. Will
do some obervation during this week to check out whether everything is really
working fine or not :-)
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rajesh@debian:~$ mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/data type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/hda6 on /mnt/funstuff type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro)
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Thanks for the help.
Warm Regards
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Rajesh Fowkar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kurtarkar Nagari,Bldg-C,T4, http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com
Santacruz,Ponda-Goa-403401-INDIA Powered By : Debian GNU/Linux (Potato)
Kernel 2.4.5 & Mutt 1.3.15i
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"The expert at anything was once a beginner." -Hayes
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