Re: MOUNTING PROBLEM

["agguptaca" <agguptaca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sunil,

The most probable problem seems to be kernel support for the vfat filesystem
(Win filesystem). Recompile your kernel with fat and vfat support. This
should fix your problem.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunil Varghese" <varghesesunil@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux General" <linux-india-General@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Linux help" <linux-india-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 7:04 PM
Subject: [LIG] MOUNTING PROBLEM


> Hello everybody,
>
> I gave the following command to mount my win partition on linux
>
> root@sunil$:     mkdir /mnt/win
> root@sunil$:     mount /dev/hda1  /mnt/win -t vfat
>
> But it gave the following error and failed to mount .
>
> mount :  /dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number .
>
> I also checked whether it is correct partition or not using
>
> root@sunil$  fdisk /dev/hda
>                         p  [for printing the partition names ]
>
>
> What could be wrong  ?
>
> Note :  I did delete contents of  /etc/sysconfig/hwconf  to refresh my
> hardware detection , and it did detect [that was for i810 mb problem ] but
I
> don't think that has to anything to do with mounting.
>
> Expecting an early reply
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>