Re: Mounting a FAT32 partition

[Sanvir Singh Jham <ssjham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Srikrishan:
instead of msdos try using vfat.

 mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/mypartition

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On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Gaddam Srikrishan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My name is Srikrishan and I am quite new to Linux, working on it for
> last 3 months.
> 
> I 've a small query that goes like this.
> 
> I've installed RH6.2 on a machine that also has Windows 95 installed in
> their
> respective partitions. Windows partition is in FAT32.
> To access that partition I mount that partition under Linux. Although I
> am able to
> see all my files, only that I don't see them in Long File Name Format
> (LFN).
> 
> I am mounting the partition with the following command:
> 
> mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/mypartition
> 
> I'll be grateful to LI-Delhi if somebody can help me out to see my files
> in LFN.
> 
> Thanks
> Srikrishan
>