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Bug 56839

Summary: 2.6.8-rc1 can't mount vfat filesystems
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) <ticho>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://kernel.org
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Description Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-12 16:07:42 UTC
when using kernel built from sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.8_rc1, I am unable to mount vfat partitions:

# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb2 /mnt/disk
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2,
       or too many mounted file systems

On kernel built from development-sources-2.6.7 with identical .config file, everything works just fine.

Vfat support is compiled as module.
Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-12 23:19:25 UTC
Please file this at bugzilla.kernel.org, this is not a gentoo specific issue.
Comment 2 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-31 15:47:00 UTC
I know it's usually bad to post to closed bugs, but this is probably the solution to the problem:

To fix your FAT32 mounting, make sure that you compile the correct codepages into your kernel.

In File Systems-> Native Language Support, there are code pages listed. To get Fat32 working, I had to enable:
Codepage 437 (United States, Canada)
NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages)

-Joe
Comment 3 Trey Blancher 2004-10-14 19:50:59 UTC
Joe Jezak's solution did not work for me;  I already had the Native Language options (Codepage 437 and ISO 8859-1) selected, and it still won't mount vfat partitions.

And I can't find this bug on bugzilla.kernel.org.