On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:47, steve wrote:
> >Anybody got any good ideas as to how to make a partition and filesystem on
> > the pendrive which will mount as a vfat? ( want something which will cope
> > with long filenames and be portable across Linux, Win, and MacOS )
> >
> > �
>
> Make it a single linux partition ( 0x83 ), then mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 (
> or whatever ).
>
> Should work.
Indeed it _should_, but it doesn't.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/pendrive/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
or too many mounted file systems
This is always the result of mounting the vfat filesystems created my linux.
imho, the linux utilities for making dos/win vfat
filesystems have all got a subtle bug in them.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
