You may need to change the partition lable. This is independent of the
underlying filesystem. You *should* be able to do this under fdisk ('m'
gives you a menu of options), but I'd back things up just in case.
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:55:02AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> I'm experiencing some problems with fdisk reporting BSD partitions on
> a disk with ext2 partitions. I think that I did have a BSD slice on
> there at the very beginning, but I don't remember whether it's still
> there. It could be hdc2, but I couldn't figure out a way to mount the
> partitions from it. Below is the output from fdisk. I don't know how
> to manipulate the partitions this way...
>
> `mount' mounts hdc1, hdc4, hdc5 and hdc6 without a problem. hdc3 is
> linux swap.
>
> How could I get to the partitions from Linux?
>
> Thanks for any hints!
>
> ,----[ fdisk ]
> | Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 26500 cylinders
> | Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
> |
> | 8 partitions:
> | # start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> | a: 1 7* 6* 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
> | b: 7* 32* 25* swap
> | c: 1 1663* 1662* unused 0 0
> | e: 32* 57* 25* 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
> | f: 57* 83* 25* 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
> | g: 83* 1663* 1580* 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
> `----
>
> ,----[ dmesg ]
> | Partition check:
> | hdc: hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 > hdc3 hdc4
> `----
>
> ,----[ mount ]
> | /dev/hdc1 on /mnt/hdc1 type ext2 (rw)
> | /dev/hdc4 on /mnt/hdc4 type ext2 (rw)
> | /dev/hdc6 on /mnt/hdc6 type ext2 (rw)
> | /dev/hdc5 on /mnt/hdc5 type ext2 (rw)
> `----
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