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