mount fat32 ...

[anton]

Hello,

I got a little problem here, all my drives are mounted as vfat, and somehow it only see 2048 of that drive ... is there any other way I could mount it as fat32 ?

thanks.

[anton]

well, want to expand a little on the problem : I unmounted/mounted this filesystem , started to download first file - everything is ok , wanted to start parallel downloading of another file, but this hdd was already in "read-only mode" :( ... how would I go about changing this ?

on that hdd I have about 4gb of 13GB free

thanks

[bdg1983]

devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sr0 /mnt/dvdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/pddrive iso9660 ro,user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/ls120 auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda5 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9 vfat rw,defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /mnt/hda8 vfat ro,defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 vfat ro,defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat ro,defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

Edit /etc/fstab and change the line for the fat32 mount from ro to rw

i.e.
/dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9 vfat rw,defaults 0 0

[anton]

hmm ... I didn't have ro nor rw there , well I put rw there, we'll see what will happen ...

but I think the problem is not in that, b/c first I'm able to write there, and after the first written file I get read only :(

[anton]

ok , it didn't help ...

absolutely the same thing ...

pls, help me out, it's really getting on my nerves ... I need to download a lot of stuff(legal of course) and can't b/c of this :(

by the way I'm using Madnrake 8.0 + KDE ...

thanks a lot

[anton]

I think I got it wokring by adding fat=32 into that fstab ...

maybe it will help somebody else :)

[Linuxcool]

What does your fstab file look like?

[anton]

/dev/hdg6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
/mnt/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom3 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom3 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/dev/hdg1 /mnt/win_c vfat rw,user,exec,fat=32,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset =iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hdh1 /mnt/win_e vfat rw,user,exec,umask=0,fat=32,codepage=850,iocharset =iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hdg7 /mnt/win_j vfat rw,user,exec,umask=0,fat=32,codepage=850,iocharset =iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hdh5 /mnt/win_f vfat rw,user,exec,fat=32,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset =iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hdg8 /mnt/win_l vfat rw,user,exec,fat=32,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset =iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hdh6 /mnt/win_g vfat rw,user,exec,fat=32,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset =iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hdh7 /mnt/win_i vfat rw,user,exec,fat=32,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset =iso8859-1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdg5 swap swap defaults 0 0

[anton]

again same problem :mad:


I'm getting sick of this :o

any help ? :confused:

[Malakin]

What kernel are you using, is it the default one?

Have you tried the copy operation as root?

[anton]

yes, it's default that came with mandrake 8.0 ...

hold on , I'll try that with root ...


nope , absolutely the same :( ...

when I'll restart it will work absolutely fine , but only for a few files though, then it won't let me write again :(

[bdg1983]

Try removing 'codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1' from one of them and see if it works.

[Malakin]

With the default kernel in mdk 8 it was working fine for me from the start.

This is the entry in fstab that mandrake put there:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0

I don't think your problem has anything to do with this though. It's probably something a little more weird.

That's a lot of fat32 partions you've got there :)

[anton]

well ...I think something going on with my disks , b/c yesterday I unmounted that one patrition , then mounted it today , and still writing from that hour on :) (downloading)


I have that many fat32 patrtitions ,b/c I don't like big disks, I like them about 10-15gigs each :)

[anton]

starting to do the same again,also showed that I had only 500mb free and I had about 5Gb free , so I wen't to win2k , it did scandisk and gave me 2 bad chains, after that I went to linux and it sees free space fine ... trying to downliad files, we'll see what will happen ;)