Mounting FAT32 (vfat) Partition
I have checked this in Fedora and Debian. All are working without any error. You can read and write on vfat in Linux. Here is the the way to do it.
- Open and terminal as root (If you not logged as root type su and hit enter. Then enter root password. and hit enter)
- You have to identify your hard disk partions. So Type following command and in Terminal
and hit enter.
/sbin/fdisk -l
You'll see some thing like this.
|
Boot |
Start |
End |
Blocks |
Id |
System |
| /dev/hda1 |
* |
1 |
1912 |
15358108+ |
7 |
HPFS/NTFS |
| /dev/hda2 |
|
1913 |
4998 |
24788295 |
f |
W95 Ext'd (LBA) |
| /dev/hda5 |
|
1913 |
2565 |
5245191 |
7 |
HPFS/NTFS |
| /dev/hda6 |
|
2566 |
3218 |
5245191 |
83 |
Linux |
| /dev/hda7 |
|
3219 |
4773 |
12490506 |
7 |
HPFS/NTFS |
| /dev/hda8 |
|
4774 |
4868 |
755023+ |
82 |
Linux swap |
| /dev/hda9 |
|
4868 |
4998 |
755023+ |
b |
W95 FAT32 |
You can see my hda9 is FAT32.
- Go to /media or /mnt folder by using cd command [I'm using media folder here]
cd /media
Then Create a folder of it with any name[I'm creating a folder name as F: by mkdir
command. You can create this folder using gui also]
mkdir F:
- Now it is mounting time. Type the follwing command and hit enter.
mount -t vfat /dev/hda9 /media/F:
Now open F: folder in media. Now you can see file on mounted partion in F: folder.
- That mount is only a temperarly one. You shoud edit your fstab to make that permanant. So type following command in termaninal and hit enter.
gedit /etc/fstab
You can see some follwing data on it. Those are about boot time mounts. Add the following line to end of it without changing above content.
/dev/hda9 /media/F: vfat
Then save it and exit it. When you boot your computer evry time that partion will be mount on to F: folder automatically.
Kasun Chathuranga
14-May-2006 13:06