Installed new harddisk but can't mount it?

[Twinkle]

Hi..

I managed to install my used 120GB maxtor drive. It has 2 partitions .. a 60Gb in NTFS and a 60 GB in FAT32 .. I am trying to mount the FAT32 partition but evertime I run mount it's asking to specifiy the file type??

Any help.. Ideas??

Here is my /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/sdb1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/sdb5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom1   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/sdc1      /mnt/pretec      auto    noauto,user     0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/sdd1        /mnt/card      auto    rw,noauto,user  0       0
/dev/hdc2        /mnt/backups   auto    rw,noauto,user  0       0

Here is what I get

home:/home/devil# mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt/backups
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

[jan1024188]

type

mount -t vfat /dev/hdc2 /mnt/backups

to mount fat32
use ntfs instead vfat to mount ntfs partition

[Twinkle]

type

mount -t vfat /dev/hdc2 /mnt/backups

to mount fat32
use ntfs instead vfat to mount ntfs partition

Tried that still didn't work ..

I tried mounting the NTFS partiton and it worked fine,, but I can't seem to be able of mounting the FAT32 ..

Now another problem .. after trying to mount them on debian Win XP doen't see the hardisk anymore!!!

[jan1024188]

can you post your fdisk -l ?

[Twinkle]

Thanx man ...

Here was the problem ..

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *           1        7473    60026841    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc2            7474       14946    60026872+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5            7474       14946    60026841    b  W95 FAT32

The device was hdc5 not hdc2!!!

I just assumed since the first partiton was on hdc1 the second will be on hdc2!!

Now it's working and I can mount it ..

Another question though .. How could I have it to automount.. i.e be mount and on all the time starting from boot...

[jan1024188]

make two directories
let we say one /media/fat and another /media/ntfs
add this two lines o your /etc/fstab

/dev/hdc1 /media/ntfs ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0 
/dev/hdc5 /media/fat vfat rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0

save and reboot

[Twinkle]

make two directories
let we say one /media/fat and another /media/ntfs
add this two lines o your /etc/fstab

/dev/hdc1 /media/ntfs ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0 
/dev/hdc5 /media/fat vfat rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0

save and reboot

Worked like a charm ..

HuGsss

[jan1024188]

im glad it works........

[scrogs]

after editing fstab and adding

/dev/hdb5       /mnt/backup     ntfs    ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0

I can now read my secondry disk (thanks guys) but even as root I cannot write to it.

Any ideas?

[ryptyde]

In Fedora 7 I use "ntfs-3g and ntfs-config" for read/write access of my NTFS partitions and devices. I have two directories in /mnt> fat32 and ntfs on my laptop dual booting Fedora 7/Vista. The Fedora Core 6 and Windows XP setup on separate drives has the XP ntfs disk mounted in /media/ntfs.

EDIT: well I guess this thread is a bit old!