Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:32:23AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> Great. fdisk -l /dev/hde gives me
>
> /dev/hde1 * ...
> /dev/hde2 ...
> /dev/hde5 ...
>
> /hde2 and /hde5 give the same starting and ending blocks, so I assume
> hde5 is the logical partition and hde2 is the extended partition
Yes, though the part of the output from fdisk -l which you snipped
should tell you that for definite.
> fdisk -l /dev/hdf gives me /hdf1 and hdf2
>
> Problem: Neither ls /f (assigned in /etc/fstab to /hde5) nor /h
> (assigned in /etc/fstab to hdf2) works
You have to explicitly mount them; if all you do is list them in
/etc/fstab nothing happens until you next boot. "mount -a" as root
should mount everything listed in /etc/fstab.
Remember that when you create a new partition, you have to create a
filesystem on it before you can use it (see man mke2fs).
If it still doesn't work, I suggest you post your /etc/fstab and the
*entire* output from fdisk -l on the drive concerned.
> An interesting observation. On the drive labeled as hdf, I have the
> second partition in fat32 yet both are shown as ntfs. Is Microsoft
> jury-rigging this to seem to behave as fat32 when in fact it is actually
> ntfs?
I very much doubt it, although I've never used the NT-based variants
of Windoze. I don't know what's going on there. Sorry.
Pigeon
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