Tip 41: Read files from FAT32 drives

The Linux utility mount can read any file system that the kernel supports. Since version 2.0.34, the kernel supports FAT32, which is the main file system used by Windows 98.

To read the FAT32 file system you need to specify the -tvfat option to mount. Here is an example: mount -tvfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt