Re: [PLUG] Accessing a FAT32 drive from Linux

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

Fred K Ollinger wrote:

> 2. Next you can mount it:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /mnt
>
>  
I usually use the vfat system type, i.e.
   mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/winboot
instead of the msdos type.  My understanding is that the msdos type 
doesn't support fat16/fat32 long file names, which is the reason that 
vfat was implemented.  In fact, when mounting floppies and zip disks, I 
have "auto" as the type in fstab, and Linux has seemed to correctly 
detect the file system type.

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