topic Re: Mounting FAT32 partitions in Operating System - Linux

Mounting FAT32 partitions

Daniel Fourie — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:53:23 GMT

Hi!

I want to mount two partitions on a external disk connected on my system via a usb interface. Now if I mount the first partition on the drive it succeeds, but when I try to mount the second it fails with "/dev/sdc2 is not a valid block device" yet I can access both partitions on windows.

fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4427 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 267 2040255 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 268 4427 33415200 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4427 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 254 2040223+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 255 4427 33519622+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 2432 19535008+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdc2 2433 4865 19543072+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

Please help????

Regards
Daniel

Re: Mounting FAT32 partitions

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:19:31 GMT

what's your kernel version?Maybe you need a newer one...
take a look here:
http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/23521.html

Re: Mounting FAT32 partitions

Umapathy S — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:47:06 GMT

what does scsiinfo -l returns.

what does /var/log/messages say. Any other output on dmesg.

Umapathy

Re: Mounting FAT32 partitions

Brice_3 — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:57:53 GMT

You can use command "lsusb" to see if the usb device is detected by the system.

USB mass storage use scsi emulation, so probably you also want to cat /proc/scsi/scsi to see if you have an emulated scsi device on the system.

BTW, what kind of file system do you have on the second disk?