wrong major or minor number

[Brian Densmore]

Jared,

Just curious. Why are you using the /40 in mount command? I assume you have
an fstab entry for /dev/hdb1? Or are you using /40 as a mountpoint? You can
modprobe to determine if the vfat filesystem is active. It may be compiled
as a module, although I always compile it into the kernel. You can look in
/etc/filesystems to see if you have support for vfat. If it isn't in there
it's a pretty good bet the kernel isn't compiled for vfat.

Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Coleman" <mkc at mathdogs.com>
To: "jared" <jared at mail.ru>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: wrong major or minor number

> "jared" <jared at mail.ru> writes:
> > I am running Redhat 7.0 on a PIII 500MHz and I am trying to mount my
FAT32
> > drives.  When i try 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /40' I am returned with
"wrong
> > major or minor number"
>
> Looking up that error string, it looks like one cause could be that your
> kernel wasn't compiled with vfat or dosfs support (or maybe those modules
> haven't been loaded, for whatever reason).
>
> --Mike
>
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> Mike Coleman, mkc at mathdogs.com
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