Hello Uwe,
funnily, I did reboot my system, being aware of such issues. I did have to
update a few user utilities once again, because a lot of dependency updates
were happening at the same time upstream, but those were just python stuff and
some networking libraries, as required for my mail program. It's odd. Still,
I'm just glad it works.
Best wishes and thanks,
Jeanette
Jan 22 2022, Uwe Sauter has written:
HI Jeanette,
I suppose you updated you system but did not reboot before trying to mount
that filesystem?
Then the behaviour is easily explained: during the update of the kernel (the
package is named linux) all files belonging to the running kernel are removed
and replaced with new files under a new path (corresponding to the new kernel
version)!
This means that every action that tries to load a kernel module (explicit
using modprobe or implicit by trying to mount a filesystem, whose module was
not yet loaded) is unable to find said module and thus fail. There is no
other way as to reboot in order to activate the new kernel and its modules.
There is no mount.vfat executable because the kernel does not need such
helper binary to mount vfat.
Regards,
Uwe
Am 22.01.22 um 14:09 schrieb Jeanette C. via arch-general:
After a further reboot FAT filesystems can now be mounted, which is
strange. I found a side note about that somewhere. I did reboot after
installing the new kernel.
Best wishes,
Jeanette
Jan 22 2022, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general has written:
On 1/22/22 5:30 AM, Jeanette C. via arch-general wrote:
Hey hey,
I just updated my system yesterday and now I can't mount a VFAT
filesystem.
Installed packages:
linux 5.16.2.arch1-1
util-linux 2.37.2-5
There is no mount.vfat or mount.fat program/script and apparently no
kernel
module installed that contains "fat" in its name.
Is there a change in the way to mount such filesystems?
Best wishes and thanks for any hints,
Jeanette
Maybe try installing dosfstools?
DR
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