From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:06:20 +0000 Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] FAT32 file system not mounting on IA-64 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Chris, thanks for investigating further. Glad to hear you can reproduce the problem there. w/o the -F 32, it makes a FAT16 file system, which supports long file names and the vfat type, just as Windows NT FAT16 file systems support long file names. If you mount with: mount -ofat or with -ofat2, you'll see it force the choice, and then you can see if the kernel thinks it's a FAT16 or FAT32. Thanks, Matt -----Original Message----- From: Ahna, Christopher J [mailto:christopher.j.ahna@intel.com] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 7:25 PM Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] FAT32 file system not mounting on IA-64 Matt, I looked a little more and think you're probably onto something. I believe there is a problem with 'mkdosfs -F 32'. I ran this program on a 100MB file I built with dd and got the errors you reported when I tried to mount it. Doing the same thing without the '-F 32' switch built a mountable filesystem which looks for all the world like FAT32 (for example, it doesn't have a problem with arbitrarily long filenames and mounted successfully with 'mount -t vfat'). Somebody might want to look into this if they have time. Thanks, Chris