mounting fat32 file system

happytoday

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Nov 18, 2008, 4:10:43 PM11/18/08

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My system is Solaris10 x86U3. I need to access my windows partition
through Solaris which is a fat32 filesystem . I was searching over the
net I found "mount ntfs filesystem " but my windows is fat32
filesystem .
How can I mount fat32 filesystem ?
I tried mounting with smbfs file system but with no success .
Any help
Thanks

Paul Floyd

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Nov 18, 2008, 4:14:18 PM11/18/08

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It's somewhat badly named pcfs in Solaris. See man mount_pcfs.

A bientot
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Richard B. Gilbert

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Nov 18, 2008, 4:51:26 PM11/18/08

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Have you considered converting your "FAT" file system to NTFS? I don't
think Solaris offers ANY support for FAT file systems.

Thommy M.

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Nov 18, 2008, 5:07:02 PM11/18/08

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Solaris has had support for FAT32 for as long as I know. It's called
pcfs and Solaris mounts (read/write) an USB stick with FAT32 just
perfectly as well as a disk with FAT32.

Andrew Gabriel

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Nov 18, 2008, 5:12:59 PM11/18/08

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In article <zcOdnb9SuIsdpb7U...@giganews.com>,

Well, you got that exactly the wrong way around.

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Wolfgang Maron

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Nov 18, 2008, 7:46:29 PM11/18/08

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An example: mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2d0p2 /mnt

Wolfgang

Chris Ridd

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Nov 19, 2008, 2:29:17 AM11/19/08

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I think there improvements were made to the PCFS support later on in
Solaris 10. So maybe updating from U3 would be a good idea.
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happytoday

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Nov 22, 2008, 2:10:36 PM11/22/08

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On Nov 19, 9:29 am, Chris Ridd <chrisr...@mac.com> wrote:

I tried all /dev/dsk/c*p* devices with those answers below with
failure :

#/>mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c3t0d0p3 /export/home/windows
mount: /dev/dsk/c3t0d0p3 is already mounted or /export/home/windows is
busy

#/>mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d1p0 /export/home/windows
mount: I/O error

#/>mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p3 /export/home/windows
mount: No such file or directory

Chris Ridd

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Nov 22, 2008, 2:33:19 PM11/22/08

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On 2008-11-22 19:10:36 +0000, happytoday <ehabaz...@gmail.com> said:

> I tried all /dev/dsk/c*p* devices with those answers below with
> failure :
>
> #/>mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c3t0d0p3 /export/home/windows
> mount: /dev/dsk/c3t0d0p3 is already mounted or /export/home/windows is
> busy
>
>
> #/>mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d1p0 /export/home/windows
> mount: I/O error
>
> #/>mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p3 /export/home/windows
> mount: No such file or directory

What gets logged when you try each of those?
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Chris

happytoday

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Nov 22, 2008, 5:27:02 PM11/22/08

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On Nov 22, 9:33 pm, Chris Ridd <chrisr...@mac.com> wrote:

What do you mean by gets logged ??? Nothing happened of course .

Ian Collins

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Nov 22, 2008, 6:00:12 PM11/22/08

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happytoday wrote:
>
> What do you mean by gets logged ??? Nothing happened of course .

Have you learned anything form your years of posing elementary questions
here?

I still think this bloke is a troll.

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Chris Ridd

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Nov 23, 2008, 2:09:24 AM11/23/08

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Watch /var/adm/messages when you try each of those mount commands.
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Chris

Wolfgang Maron

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Nov 23, 2008, 2:57:27 AM11/23/08

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>>>> #/>mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c3t0d0p3 /export/home/windows
>>>> mount: /dev/dsk/c3t0d0p3 is already mounted or /export/home/windows is
>>>> busy
>>>

I think this is right and you must do : cd /export/home/windows

Wolfgang

okasion

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Nov 30, 2008, 9:56:56 PM11/30/08

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this is your answer: http://blogs.sun.com/pradhap/date/20070716