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Re: My HDD - FAT32 partition has vanished



You have to specify partition   type as vfat. eg
mount  -t vfat  /dev/hda1 /mnt

Manoj Phadke
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From: Soumyanath Chatterjee <soumya_chatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 1:04 AM
Subject: My HDD - FAT32 partition has vanished


> I have a dual boot machine - Linux & Win98. Earlier Win98 was on FAT16 and
I
> was able to read write that partition from Linux. Yesterday I changed
FAT16
> to FAT32 system, now I am not able to access the partition from Linux.
>
> I could not find anything in man pages on mounting FAT32 drive. Please
help
> me.
>
> - Soumya
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>
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