How to mount fat32 partition in RH Linux 7.3

[Mucho]

LinuxNewBie, I have a dual boot RH 7.3 and Win2K. Win2K is on the primary master drive "C" which has a fat32 partition "D". RH is on the secondary drive "E", CDROM "F" and Burner "G". I would like to access the files on "D" I've typed the command at root "mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows however I cant access the drive "D"

 

[n0cmonkey]

What errors do you get? The command looks right to me (although you could try hda5 I think....).

 

[Mucho]

Ok mate, this is this what I got.

[root@CPE0080c8df52c4 mucho]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)

The partition I want to mount is on hda2

 

[n0cmonkey]

The reason I mentioned hda5 is that if you created an extended partition, hda5 I believe, would be the first logical partition inside that extended partition.

 

[Nothinman]

type 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' to see the partition table to figure out which partition you want.

 

[Mucho]

When I replaced: hda2 with hda5 it mounted.
Regards

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Mucho
When I replaced: hda2 with hda5 it mounted.
Regards

Told ya 😉