Re: [PARPORT] can't mount sparq on vfat filesystem


Steve Burany (sburany@midnightsun.uwaterloo.ca)
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:36:47 -0400 (EDT)


> My question is : Is it possible to mount a sparQ with one of these
> filesystems or the paride-0.94 drivers know only the ext2? If it is
> possible to use other filesystem, what must I do ?

For sure - this is linux! I'm new at all of this and had the same
problem. When you format the disk (using fsck.ext2 or whatever) it does
not tag the partition as ext2 (or whatever). You have to go in with
fdisk and change the partitions type to ext2 and then mount will be happy.

Steve

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