It could be that your kernel doesnt have support for vfat anymore, are
you trying this from knoppix? Or are you using the recovery kernel?
You also could try 'fsck'.
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:52:04 -0400, SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> In the last Dunedin Paul was so gracious to help with my crashed laptop.
> Thanks to Paul I can now boot the computer into root and as root I can
> send/receive email which will be the easy to transfer the data I am trying to
> recover.
>
> For those of you who have forgotten, didn care, or did not read the previous
> set of e-mail I crashed a Mandrake 9.1 system by visiting some web site which
> apparently had a java script which trashed /home. Attempts by myself to
> recover by reinstalling the system failed with such attempts finally
> destroying system boot. Paul was so gracious as to modify the boot such that
> system now boots directly but /home is still obviated.
>
> Currently I am stilltrying to extract critical file data from a directory I
> called Common_Data.
>
> As originally set up partitions were as follows per cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda5 /home/trunk/Common_Dara vfat
> iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /boot ext3 noatime 1 2
> /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda8 /home ext3
> /dev/hda9 / ext3 noatime 1 1
> /dev/hda10 /home/trunk/Linux_Data reiserfs notail,noatime 1 2
> /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
>
> The following attempts were made by Paul and Myself to mount
> /home/trunk/Common_Data
> First Paul attempted to mount this partition under /mnt/data and then I
> attempted to mount it under /mnt/Common_Data by use of the following command:
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/data
> mount -t auto /dev/hda5 /mnt/data
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/Common_Data
> mount -t auto /dev/hda5 /mnt/Common_Data
>
> The following error message was received:
> Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, or too many
> mounted file systems.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as how to proceed to mount this partition so
> that the data may be extrated.
>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
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