LMDE Installer Mounts Existing FAT32 partition as "fat32"

[altair4]

There's a rather curios bug in the installer when you have the the partitioner create a mount point for an existing FAT32 partition.

Description of problem and steps to reproduce:
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I have a FAT32 partition at /dev/sda6 and during install I had the installer mount it to /DataF. After rebooting the system, I got an error message that it encountered an unknown filetype: fat32. After login I looked at the fstab entry it created and found the following:

/dev/sda6 /DataF fat32 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0

There is in fact no such filetype as fat32. It's an easy fix. Just change fat32 to vfat:

/dev/sda6 /DataF vfat rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0

[shane (shane-animail)]

Affects me too and also affects ext partitions with the partition type replace with a description and the partition type in brackets which cannot be read by the system.

An example of this:

/dev/sda8 /mnt/testing ubuntu 10.10 (ext3) default 0 2

With the "testing" mount point also not created.

[Vikki Roemer (compgrokker)]

Hi, thank you for reporting this issue!

Unfortunately it looks like this bug report
has not been attended to in quite some time.
In order to establish whether this is a valid
bug or not we will need a response from yourself
indicating that the error is still present today
and reproducable (i.e. not fixed)

Thank you

[altair4 (altair4mint)]

It is indeed still a problem.

Requirements:
Already existing FAT32 formatted partition.
Installed with: linuxmint-debian-201101-gnome-dvd-i386.iso

sudo blkid -c /dev/null:

/dev/sda1: UUID="eac9a5ad-89e0-4cd3-bb20-f6a4fa2f5781" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: UUID="c6ef598f-09f8-4f9d-a2f7-d03977e4e600" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda3: UUID="9969-4DE4" TYPE="vfat"
david@valtair ~ $ cat /etc/fstab
cat /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda3 /DataF fat32 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0

No such thing as fat32 in this context. Should be vfat.

[altair4 (altair4mint)]

Just to let you folks know this bug persists:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=175&t=78094

It is my hope that the next release of LMDE has this fixed.

[altair4 (altair4mint)]

It would appear that this bug is also present in the latest release of LMDE - LMDE 201109

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

still an issue,
also note that the permissions are worse [read only owned by root]

UUID=.... /data fat32 defaults 0 0

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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