Converting a hard drive from ext3 to fat32
Is it possible to convert the above. I have already backed it up to another drive. After I format it in Partition Magic What commands do I issue to re mount it . -- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
Approaching from a different angle, you can make ext3 readable/writeable under Windows: http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows http://www.fs-driver.org/ On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Ron Dean <rvdean(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Is it possible to convert the above. I have already backed it up to another drive. After I format it in Partition Magic What commands do I issue to re mount it .
-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
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mount -o vfat /dev/sda3 /mount/point Assuming sda3 is the partition you want to mount. If it is mounting automatically as ext3, you can change /etc/fstab to mount it as vfat. On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Ron Dean <rvdean(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Is it possible to convert the above. I have already backed it up to another drive. After I format it in Partition Magic What commands do I issue to re mount it .
-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
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I am trying to mount fat32 and used the following command and get this error message root(a)ron-desktop:~# mount -o vfat /dev/sdd1 /media/disk mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so It is a portable usb hard drive which I had working with ext3 I only run Ubuntu 8.04 myself but want to copy files from a windows laptop Samuel Douglas wrote:
mount -o vfat /dev/sda3 /mount/point
Assuming sda3 is the partition you want to mount.
If it is mounting automatically as ext3, you can change /etc/fstab to mount it as vfat.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Ron Dean <rvdean(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Is it possible to convert the above. I have already backed it up to another drive. After I format it in Partition Magic What commands do I issue to re mount it .
-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
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I am trying to mount fat32 and used the following command and get this error message root(a)ron-desktop:~# mount -o vfat /dev/sdd1 /media/disk
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 12:06 +1200, Ron Dean wrote: this should be mount -t vfat Have you formatted the drive for fat32 yet? mkfs.vfat /dev/sdd1 Alastair
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
It is a portable usb hard drive which I had working with ext3 I only run Ubuntu 8.04 myself but want to copy files from a windows laptop
Samuel Douglas wrote:
mount -o vfat /dev/sda3 /mount/point
Assuming sda3 is the partition you want to mount.
If it is mounting automatically as ext3, you can change /etc/fstab to mount it as vfat.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Ron Dean <rvdean(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Is it possible to convert the above. I have already backed it up to another drive. After I format it in Partition Magic What commands do I issue to re mount it .
-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
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I got it to mount using the -t option but now I don't know how to change the permissions from root I have tried the following sudo chown ron /media/sdd1 chmod 755 -R /media/sdd1 What am I missing here? Samuel Douglas wrote:
mount -o vfat /dev/sda3 /mount/point
Assuming sda3 is the partition you want to mount.
If it is mounting automatically as ext3, you can change /etc/fstab to mount it as vfat.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Ron Dean <rvdean(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Is it possible to convert the above. I have already backed it up to another drive. After I format it in Partition Magic What commands do I issue to re mount it .
-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
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Vfat doesn't understand the same sort of permissions that ext3 does. If you want a disk to be writeable by a user, you need to specify that user as options when you mount the drive You will need to use the uid and perhaps gid mount options, and perhaps the umask one as well eg: id ron will show you the uid for the 'ron' user. Use this where I say "$uid" below then mount -o uid=$uid -t vfat /dev/sdd1 /media/sdd1 I'm somewhat surprised that there isn't a nice gui mangler tool to handle this for you however. Have you checked any of that?
I got it to mount using the -t option but now I don't know how to change the permissions from root I have tried the following sudo chown ron /media/sdd1 chmod 755 -R /media/sdd1 What am I missing here?
Samuel Douglas wrote:
mount -o vfat /dev/sda3 /mount/point
Assuming sda3 is the partition you want to mount.
If it is mounting automatically as ext3, you can change /etc/fstab to mount it as vfat.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Ron Dean <rvdean(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Is it possible to convert the above. I have already backed it up to another drive. After I format it in Partition Magic What commands do I issue to re mount it .
-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
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mount -t vfat /dev/sdd1 /media/sdd1 -o uid=username,gid=groupname,fmask=022 this should have the desired effect ;) Ron Dean wrote:
I got it to mount using the -t option but now I don't know how to change the permissions from root I have tried the following sudo chown ron /media/sdd1 chmod 755 -R /media/sdd1 What am I missing here?
Samuel Douglas wrote:
mount -o vfat /dev/sda3 /mount/point
Assuming sda3 is the partition you want to mount.
If it is mounting automatically as ext3, you can change /etc/fstab to mount it as vfat.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Ron Dean <rvdean(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Is it possible to convert the above. I have already backed it up to another drive. After I format it in Partition Magic What commands do I issue to re mount it .
-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
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Is it possible to convert the above. I have already backed it up to another drive. After I format it in Partition Magic What commands do I issue to re mount it .
This might be a good time to remind everyone that we have our Saturday Fixit meeting tomorrow, and we're always happy to help people with problems like this and/or explain what's going on.
Thanks Bruce for all the help you have given me in the past and I would have come to fixit meeting but I have another commitment that day . I have now got it working under fat32 thanks everybody who helped. Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
Is it possible to convert the above. I have already backed it up to another drive. After I format it in Partition Magic What commands do I issue to re mount it .
This might be a good time to remind everyone that we have our Saturday Fixit meeting tomorrow, and we're always happy to help people with problems like this and/or explain what's going on. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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