Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:34:35AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 16709 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hde1 * 1 14593 117218241 7
> HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hde2 14594 19457 39070080 f Win95
> Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hde5 14594 19457 39070048+ b Win95
> FAT32
>
> % mount -a
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde5,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> [and for fdisk -l /dev/hdf]
>
> /dev/hdf1 1 12238 98301703+ 7
> HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdf2 12239 16709 35913307+ 7
> HPFS/NTFS
>
> [I stand corrected. Both partitions on hdf are ntfs. I had thought I had
> made the second one fat32... probably just a mind/memory error]
>
> # etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> /dev/hda1 /c vfat defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda5 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hda8 /d vfat defaults 0 0
> /dev/hde1 /e ntfs ro,auto,user 0 0
> /dev/hde5 /f vfat defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdf1 /g ntfs ro,auto,user 0 0
> /dev/hdf2 /h ntfs ro,auto,user 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9669 ro,user,noauto 0 0
Well, the /etc/fstab and fdisk -l look good to me - are you sure that
you have actually formatted /dev/hde5? Can you read it under windoze,
or do you get "Invalid media type" when you type DIR at the DOS prompt?
Pigeon
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