viewing fat on turbo linux 6

[L.I. Surfer]

I recently installed turbo linux 6 on my laptop. It seems it can't read an fat formatted floppys. What module would i need or do I not need anything just a simple editting of a file would solve my problem.

[slapNUT]

You should have fat.o in /lib/modules/<kernel ver>/kernel/fs/fat/

Also msdos.o and vfat.o depend on this module, so if you can mount and read windows drives then you probably have fat.o.

Try /sbin/modprobe fat if that doesn't fail then you have the module and /sbin/lsmod should show it loaded.

<edit> I almost forgot cat /etc/filesystems will show you which filesystems you have support for. If you support vfat then you also support fat. Also if you format a drive with windows you should mount it mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy, you should be able to use auto also.

[ 18 March 2002: Message edited by: slapNUT ]

[L.I. Surfer]

tahnks very much sir, i didn't know about the /etc/filesystems file... what does the -t parameter do?

[mdwatts]

Since -t is specified with mount, then checkout the mount manpage (man mount) and you will find -t (vfstype) virtual filesystem type.