[ltp] Where did vfat go?

Tom Rockwell linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:00:06 -0400


Bert Haskins wrote:

>I just updated RedHat 7.2 upd 3. on my 770Z.
>When trying to mount my dos drives (Win32)
>mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos_c
>I got the message "unrecognized file system"
>This worked fine before the upgrade.
>What is going on?
>Thanks, Bert
>
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Redhat includes the "driver" for the vfat filesystem as a module.  I'm 
looking at a recent config file used for the kernel RPM and vfat is in 
there.

Can you do "modprobe vfat" as root?

-Tom



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