Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

Chadley Wilson chadley at pinteq.co.za
Tue Apr 6 22:44:01 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 00:45, Guolin Cheng wrote:
> Hi, Duncan,
> 
>  Thanks for you suggestions. I tried dd the partition into a image file,
> then mount it with "mount -o loop -t vfat|msdos|umsdos <file.image>
> /mnt"
> But the command failed. 
> 
>  Any other ideas? Thanks.
> 
>  --Guolin Cheng
> 

Once you dd a file it becomes an iso 
The correct command would be 
mount -o loop -t iso9660 <file.img>

Well I think this is correct and it did work and my win95 fat 16 drive

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