Waht is up with mount?

[Randy Ramsdell]

Mark Lanett wrote:

>Or you could just run fdisk and change the partition type to linux (82 or
>83, I forget which). That's undoubtably it.
>
>~mark
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>From: "Michael Schwendt" <fedora at wir-sind-cool.org>
>To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 1:46 PM
>Subject: Re: Waht is up with mount?
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>>On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:57:19 -0400
>>Randy Ramsdell <rramsdel at comcast.xxx> wrote:
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>>>Well, it turns out it was being mounted as vfat. I have no idea where
>>>that is coming from. Again, fstab is not set for this partition.
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>>I've seen users formatting FAT partitions with ext3. Try
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>>  fdisk -l /dev/hdb ; parted /dev/hdb print
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>>as fdisk lists the partition types and GNU parted tries to detect the
>>filesystem type.
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The partition has always been correct and is Linux (83).

But, this actually showed me what the problem is with mount and it never 
even crossed my mind to check this.

The LABEL was left as  MSDOS on the drive, doh!
 
I should have caught this, because we all know shold know about labels 
RH put in its fstab file. BTW, I always change RH's fstab labels with 
the real partition names.


Thanks for all the tips.

RCR