On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:56, steve wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >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 > > and fdisk -l /dev/sda says...? > > >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. > > As it happens, I've just set three of these up in the last few days. One > from dick sm*th had loads of strange partitions when delivered, whereas > another had a single linux partition on it. Hmmm... > > Your original mail said that you set the partition up as a fat32? Have > you tried it out using a linux partition? Yes, That works perfectly.
> If this doesn't work, then I'd > question whether your pen drive is working properly. My testing was done > on a debian 2.4.24 kernel, and I was messing around with debian 2.6.4 > earlier today. All pen/kernel combinations worked flawlessly. The plot thickens slightly this morning. I had success mounting the pendrive on the current Knoppix dist. as a vfat partition. The differences between Knoppix and my machine are the kernel and the mount command. Knoppix: mount-2.11x linux-2.4.<something> mymachine: mount-2.12 linux-2.6.8.1 So it would seem that we have a problem with either the kernel or the mount command. Thanks for your time. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
