I have just switched over to dual boot with windows xp and ubuntu 10.04. My hard
drive structure is as follows:

device type size (gb)

/dev/sda1 (root) ntfs 15
/dev/sda2 ext3
15
/dev/sda3 swap 2.6
/dev/sda5 (home) ext3 30
/dev/sda6 fat32 50

I can mount all partitions as per my liking. But, when it comes to mounting
fat32 partition, I am seeing very strange behaviour. Firstly, I can not see the
fat32 partition in the gui in the ubuntu file explorer (analogous to windows
explorer) or anywhere. Moreover, when I type this command (sudo mount -t vfat
/dev/sda6), mount does not work. Whereas, when I type ( sudo mount /dev/sda6),
mount works. Can you please explain why is that? What is the difference between
these two commands?

Also, even though the filesystem gets mounted with the latter command, I still
can not see the fat32 filesystem anywhere in the gui. Another concern is that in
ubuntu, fat32 filesystem shows that one folder (containing files) is present in
that filesystem. Whereas, in windows, it does not show that. Can you pleae shed
some light on it?