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I'm doing a lab in this course and I'm asked to : "Load the module for vfat support; does it have any dependencies ?"

The answer for this lab is these commands : 

modprobe vfat

modinfo vfat 

lsmod | grep vfat

However, on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine when I run 1st and 3rd commands, I don't get any output and when I run : 

modinfo vfat

I get 

modinfo: ERROR: Module vfat not found.

How should I approach this lab ?

Tomas.R
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  • It looks like there is no vfat in Ubuntu 5.0 kernel any more. But FAT FS works. – Pilot6 Jan 01 '20 at 21:49
  • What does grep CONFIG_VFAT /boot/config-$(uname -r)? if you see CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y then afaik it means that your running kernel has vfat built-in (rather than loadable as a module). – steeldriver Jan 01 '20 at 23:06
  • @Pilot6 How do I load FAT FS ? I've tried modprobe fat but then when I do lsmod it is not shown.

    @steeldriver yes

    grep CONFIG_VFAT /boot/config-$(uname -r) returns CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y

    so that's why I can't load it then, allright, thanks.

     – Tomas.R Jan 02 '20 at 08:13
  • Can you recommend me any other module I can try to load and that would actually load ? I need this so that when I come back to repeating my labs for my exam - the lab does work and I can continue with other labs :] – Tomas.R Jan 02 '20 at 08:20

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