From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:57:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:56:55 -0500 Received: from www.topmail.de ([212.255.16.226]:29657 "HELO www.topmail.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:56:52 -0500 Message-ID: <026f01c0896c$d65a9db0$0100a8c0@homeip.net> From: "mirabilos" To: "Linux-Kernel ML" , "Andreas Huppert" In-Reply-To: <200101282049.VAA04880@mail.philosys.de> Subject: Re: dos-partition mount bug Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:56:40 -0000 Organization: eccesys.net Linux Distribution Development MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I suggest type # fdisk -l /dev/hdb Maybe it's FAT32 where the others are FAT16? Try SCANDISK(tm)... If you're familiar with FAT, you also could use DEBUG, the Norton Utilities etc. to look for a failure in the filesystem. For FAT16 it's easy. Bootsector, 2xFAT, root dir, data blocks Send us a hexdump of the first block. (If it's FAT16) PS: I'm going to bed now, so could be some time to respond mirabilos ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Huppert" To: Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 8:49 PM Subject: dos-partition mount bug > > Hi, > The following bug-report concerns all linux-versions (inclusive 2.2.18) I have > had to do with! > > > I have been trying to mount the dos-partition /dev/hdb1 on /dos/d for > > three years and it fails: > > My /etc/fstab is: > > /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 0 1 > > /dev/hdb2 /downloads ext2 defaults 0 1 > > /proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 > > /dev/hda4 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 > > /dev/hda1 /dos/c vfat user,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 2 > > /dev/hda5 /dos/e vfat user,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 2 > > /dev/hdb1 /dos/d vfat user,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 2 > > > > and "mount /dos/d" sais: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, > > or too many mounted file systems > > > > strace sais: > > mount("/dev/hdb1", "/dos/d", "vfat", > > MS_NOSUID|MS_NODEV|MS_NOEXEC|0xc0ed0000, 0x8056fc8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid > > argument) > > > > I donīt need to say, that mounting /dos/c and /dos/e works without any > > problem. On the other hand win'98 works with all dos-partitions normally. > > Thanks > > Andreas Huppert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/