can't mount FAT32 file system.....

[anoop40]

Hai,

I was not able to mount FAT32 file system in RedHat Linux(Enterprise edition). I know that linux mounts fat32 system but this is something out of my reach. I need help with this.... help me.....

[grishi_111]

Welcome!
you are right, you can mount FAT file system.
usually linux mount them automatically.
if not, you need vfat to be installed.
first of all you need to identify which partition you wanted to mount and the type of partition.
you can find that by executing:

su
fdisk -l

this will list all of your partition and their type.
then according to you partition name (i am assuming it as sda1 in your case it may be other)
do this:

cd /media
mkdir sda1

then open your /etc/fstab and edit it to add following:

/dev/sda1  /media/sda1 vfat  defaults,umask=0 0 0

you can add to mount ntfs filesystem by adding(i am assuming it as sda1 in your case it may be other, infact you do not need this because you are mounting a FAT filesystem):

/dev/sda1  /media/sda1  ntfs-3g  defaults,umask=0 0 0

you need to be root to edit /etc/fstab, you can open it in vi editor by

su
vi /etc/fstab

to mount reboot or issue

 mount -a

let us know how you go.