[olug] UGH! fdisk help

[Jonathan Warren]

having vfat support or not won't cause fdisk to fail.  If fdisk failed you won't be able to mount the device anyway.  Check the drive for power and make sure it is configured as slave / master on the ide chain.  Might want to try different ide cable as well.  Also did you run fdisk as root?  It can fail if you don't have permissions on /dev/hdc.  Give cfdisk a try if you think the device is correct.  It gives very readalbe output.  


On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:53:23AM -0600, ktb wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:28:17AM -0600, Craig Wolf wrote:
> > Tried that.  I need to check to see if I have vfat support in the kernel
> > then.  Help a brother out with how? 8<)
> 
> Sure -
> 
> $ cat /proc/filesystems
> 
> Will show your current kernel's filesystems.
> 
> Vfat can be compiled into the kernel or as a module.  If you don't see
> it listed in /proc/filesystems check if the module is on your system
> with -
> 
> $ /sbin/modprobe -l vfat
> 
> If you do have the module installed then use the following to list if it
> is loaded -
> 
> $ /sbin/lsmod
> 
> hth,
> kent
> 
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