[gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

Hi, Here's a strange one... I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type "c" (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries in /etc/fstab are almost identical: /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 /dev/hda5/mnt/win_dvf

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

Thanks for all replies so far. >What's the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda"? > > Output from "fdisk -l /dev/hda": Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Bl

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

Thanks all. It's fixed. When I ran "dosfsck /dev/hda5" I got the error: Logical sector size is zero So I re-created the file system with "mkfs -t vfat -F 32 /dev/hda5" (after backing up all my files!) and now it mounts properly. Not sure I understand it because I hadn't run the mkfs command on hd