It's lying to me about fat kernel module. Can't mount fat/vfat

[Paul Furness]

Hi.

You could try mounting it as "vfat" (FAT32) which is what it probably
is. 

Have you tried mounting it and not telling mount the file system type?
That way it should autodetect what it wants to use and try and use it.
It's fairly unusual that it can't work it out for itself:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash


Paul.



On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 09:19, Naoki wrote:
> mount: fs type fat not supported by kernel
> 
> Umm?? 
> [root at dragon fs]# /sbin/lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> msdos                   9600  0
> vfat                   14720  0
> fat                    48672  2 msdos,vfat
> So why can't I mount?
> 
> Ahh I see :
> 
> [root at dragon fs]# strace mount -t fat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash/
> stat64("/sbin/mount.fat", 0xbff319a0)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> 
> So what package contains 'mount.fat'  I can't find anything. So how do
> I mount a fat/vfat directory?
> 
>