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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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