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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: Unable to mount msdos partition
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.123053.11179@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1992Sep2.021345.17741@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 12:30:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.021345.17741@athena.mit.edu> hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com writes:
- > mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt
- >
- >/dev/hda1 is my C: drive for DOS. The message I get back from mount is:
- >
- > magic match failed
- > /dev/hda1 already mounted or /mnt busy
-
- Your mount doesn't seem to pass the FS type option correctly. That
- "<foo> already mounted or <bar> busy" message is a bit misleading - you
- get it for almost any type of failure.
-
- You should try using a newer mount. If all else fails, you might also
- try smount (simplistic mount) from the dosfs package. It doesn't know
- about fstabs and mtabs, but it's fairly generic.
-
- - Werner
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