Fomat Fat32 1

[Noip]

hI,

I have just created a Fat32 Partition on my RH80 system and I would like to fomat it.

which command should be used?

 

[j1bber]

mkfs -c -t fat32 /dev/hda1

which roughly means
makefilesystem check type=fat32 partition

hda -- first ide master (whole disk)
hda1 -- first ide master (first partition)

 

[Noip]

Thanks I've tried it up, look the results:

root@localhost root]# mkfs -c -t fat32 /dev/hda5
mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
mkfs.ext2: bad blocks count - /dev/hda5

Any more help

 

[FluxAnomaly]

looks like it has mistaken your partition with an ext2 filesystem, are you sure /dev/hda5 is fat32?
you can check it with fdsik /dev/hda and then press to print the partition table

 

[Noip]

Hi thanks for the input.
Check my partition table below.
I have already deleted and recreated the partition several times..

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 3200 25599577+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3201 3265 522112+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 3266 4982 13791802+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 3266 3903 5124703+ b Win95 FAT32

 

[j1bber]

But does this next bit actually mean there is a problem or is it just telling you there are no bad blocks.

root@localhost root]# mkfs -c -t fat32 /dev/hda5
mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
mkfs.ext2: bad blocks count - /dev/hda5

what happens if you now try to mount it

 

[Noip]

Check:

[root@localhost root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems
[root@localhost root]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems
[root@localhost root]# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems
[root@localhost root]#

 

[danielhozac]

Try this:
[tt]mkfs.vfat -c /dev/hda5
mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5[/tt]

//Daniel

 

[Noip]

Check:

[root@localhost root]# mkfs.vfat -c /dev/hda5
mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system
[root@localhost root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems

Thanx for any more help...

 

[j1bber]

How big is the partition?
Try a smaller one maybe.I'm not sure what the limit is sorry.

 

[Noip]

Thanks but same output with a 200Mb partition.

Is the command 'mkfs.vfat' supposed to format the partition?

Thanks

 

[Noip]

But can't the problem be due to the no.of partitions?

It should be able to understand 3 primary: swap, boot and /
and 1 extended partition with its logical partitions! Right?

Thanks

 

[j1bber]

Why not delete the partition including the extended one and do it from inside linux. That way we know its ok! (not holding my breath though)

check out

http://www.ranish.com/part/

also have a read of

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-partitions.html

especially the bit on Partition Naming Scheme
See if you can create it as a primary rather than inside an extended. It implies up to 4 primarys are supported.
do a "man parted" to see if its on your box and read the documentation.