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hiroki

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Registered: 2007-12-01

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[SOLVED] mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

I've just made a system upgrade (pacman -Syu) and it seems like it broke my mount. Now I can't mount vfat volumes or ufs volumes, it tells me that

[hiroki@pc tmp]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/superipod/ -o rw,uid=1000
mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

[hiroki@pc tmp]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/superipod/ -t vfat -o rw,uid=1000 
mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

I can't mount my iPod and I tried to mount a DVD and it gave me the same error but with ufs instead of vfat
Anyone having the same problem?

I don't have a log on what I upgraded. I'm not sure it's related to the upgrade, but it's what I remember I did most recently to the system. Yesterday I could mount my iPod.

Also, these are the mount files I have in /sbin/

[hiroki@pc tmp]$ ls /sbin/mount*
/sbin/mount.cifs  /sbin/mount.nfs   /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g
/sbin/mount.fuse  /sbin/mount.nfs4  /sbin/mount.smbfs

I don't know if I should have mount.vfat or something like that, I'm just trying to give you all the information I can.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by hiroki (2008-08-11 18:20:02)

ravster

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From: Queen's U, Kingston, Canada

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Re: [SOLVED] mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=28437

Have you rebooted after you updated the kernel?

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hiroki

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Registered: 2007-12-01

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Re: [SOLVED] mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

No, I haven't. I'm so sorry. Really. Next time I'll search more before I post. Thanks, dude!

ravster

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Re: [SOLVED] mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

np
I've done that before too.
Let us know if it fixed the issue, and don't forget to append [solved] to the thread title.
If it didn't fix the issue, let us know about that too

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hiroki

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Re: [SOLVED] mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

That worked. Thanks!