Problem Mounting

[tzulberti]

Hi. I have a problem mount the partitions on my hard disk. The problem is the following: i have two partitions of win98 and one of linux. I can not open any of them. When i clik over the icon in the desktop, the following message apears: "mount: I could not determine the file system type, and none was specified". How can I solve this?

[Cuddles]

tzulberti,

You might want to take a look at your /etc/fstab file - something isn't right...

Here is the output of my "current" /etc/fstab file, the bold lines have to do with my FAT/Windows partitions...

cuddles@Morpheus:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
# Root partition
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Home partition
/dev/hda6 /home auto defaults,auto 0 2
# Swap partition
/dev/hda3 none swap defaults 0 0
# USB hub mount point
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
# SYS hub mount point
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
# Boot partition
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Secondary HD part1 VFAT DOS FS
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 vfat defaults,users,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
# Secondary HD part2 Linux FS
/dev/hdc2 /mnt/hdc2 ext3 defaults,users,noauto,exec 0 0
# SanDisk USB
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,noatime,umask=000 0 0
# Remaining devices
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
cuddles@Morpheus:~$

Check what you have for your "Win device", mine is a Win98 install on my second drive, first partition - I use it for WINE and some of my DOS programs - my line I have for /dev/hdc1 works for me, and the user I created... Don't worry so much about the device name, or its mount point information, the "options" after the "vfat" are what you are probably needing some changes on...

Hope this helps,
Ms. Cuddles

[user unknown]

well - when 'no systemtype' seems to indicate, that not AFTER vfat is interesting, but vfat itself.

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -t auto
or 
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -t vfat

could help. After finding out, edit fstab, as cuddles said