RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature
-----Original Message-----
From: Pigeon [mailto:jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk]
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 4:18 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: 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
Nah, I have files and directories there under Windows XP, no problem.
One thought. I partitioned the first drive (hde, 160GB Western Digital
using WD software. The second drive (hdf, also 160GB... after all, you
can never have enough storage) had to be formatted using the native MS
partition utility in Windows XP. It truncated the second partition on
the second drive so that I only have a total of 120GB available. I
wonder if somewhere therein isn't the source of the difficulties in
recognizing that partition under linux
Another consideration. I could get a copy of Partition Magic 6 (I now
have v5) and try to repartition that drive (I believe it can be done
using PM without losing the data) and see whether that fixes matters
Or... if I copied off the data in Windows (or linux), could I then
repartition hdf... say in linux to suit myself, presumably gaining the
entire 160GB, or giving some of it to Windows and using the upper part
for linux... or some variation thereof
--
David
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