Sometime Today, Ritesh H Shukla assembled some asciibets to say:
My mistake I should have mentioned, thats my vfat windows partition.. earlier on I had upgradede my kernel to 2.4.13 and the /deb/hda5 ( vfat ) was getting mounted cleanly... But some how after upgrading util and ext3 the /win/program direc where i am mounting
Ok, when you recompiled the kernel, did you compile in msdos, umsdos and vfat file system support? at least as modules. These are required to mount the vfat partition.
Philip