File Type Not Supported

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Roger Oberholtzer <mailto:roger.oberholtzer at surbrunn.net> typed thusly on
Thursday, March 13, 2003 1:45 PM:

> vfat support can be a kernel module. which may need to be
> loaded. To see what file systems your kernel supports:
> 
> 	cat /proc/filesystems

I get:

        ext2
nodev   proc
        iso9660
nodev   devpts

Looks pretty limited to me.

> If it is not listed here, then try the next step. To see
> if it is a module on your system, check for an object
> called vfat.o: 
> 
> 	find /lib/modules -name vfat.o

Nothing.  Hm.  So it isn't compiled in, nor available as a module.  That may
explain why it is so braindead in filesystems (can't support a bunch of
them).

> If you find a file called vfat.o, then it is a module and
> will need loading. If you don't find a module, it is
> either compiled in to the kernel (listed above) or not
> compiled at all... 
> 
> But, given the error message, I don't thint that is it.
> How are you trying to mount it?
> 
> 	mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

Via the fstab entry (to lazy to type that much most of the time).  The line
read:

/dev/sda  /fd   auto  noauto,user,sync  0 0

But it couldn't determine file type so I modified it to be vfat instead of
auto.

That was a pretty limited list for SuSE 7.3, so I did a check to see if it
had grabbed the LFS kernel by accident.  Nope, different dates and times and
sizes.  Rats!  Ah, well, rebuild is good for the soul.

Thanks, Roger.


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Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
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