Subject: Re: Mounting a Fat32 Partition
To: None <JakeCatfox@aol.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/16/2001 17:15:20
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 JakeCatfox@aol.com wrote:
> As requested a while back, here is the FDISK and DISKLABEL info on my
> computer. I'm trying to mount my Windows FAT32 partition, but whenever I try
> to mount a WD* device I get a "device busy" or "device not configured" error.
You need to create an MSDOS partition, and mount that (say /dev/wd0f):
f: 4096512 63 MSDOS 0 0 0
You can edit the disklabel with
export EDITOR=vi # (or whatever)
disklabel -W wd0
disklabel -e wd0 # add f: to label
disklabel -N wd0
When you mount it, use "-t msdos", as in
mkdir /c
mount -tmsdos /dev/wd0f /c
or
mkdir /c
echo "/dev/wd0f /c msdos rw" >> /etc/fstab
mount /c
> Partition Table:
> 0: sysid 12 (Primary DOS with 32 bit FAT - LBA)
> start 63, size 4096512 (2000 MB), flag 0x80
> beg: cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1
> end: cylinder 270, head 224, sector 63
Frederick