Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:05:59PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> > > [tables edited out]
> >
> > 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.
Well, I'm pretty much out of ideas now. You obviously do have vfat
support in your kernel, your mount error message would have said so if
you didn't. Wild thought: you haven't somehow managed to format hde5
as ntfs but mark it as vfat in the partition table? I doubt XP would
handle that without complaining, but I've never used it so I can't be
certain.
> One thought. I partitioned the first drive (hde, 160GB Western Digital
> using WD software.
Another wild thought here... wonder if your WD partitioning software
installed EZ-Drive? And maybe Linux doesn't like EZ-Drive? Again, I've
never tried the combination, but it's not impossible.
> 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
I'd have thought it more likely that Linux would allow you to create a
third partition to use the remaining 40Gb.
> 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
For mixed Windoze/Linux drives it's best to create the Windoze
partitions first with the Windoze fdisk, then create any Linux
partitions afterwards in Linux. Linux partitioning tools are smart
enough to work out how the Microfots software thinks the disk is
organised and be compatible with that, but not vice versa.
> A significant postscript:
>
> Without knowingly having taken any action, I can now fully read BOTH
> partitions on /hdf (both ntfs format)
>
> I can read (as before) /hde1 (ntfs format), but still cannot read /hde5,
> a fat32 partition
>
> What mischievousness have I been up to? Well I installed and then
> uninstalled Samba using apt-get (thinking it might support heterogenous
> access to the internet). Another fleeting change is that my listings on
> xterm were in powder blue and green. Suddenly they're gone. I thought
> that was 'ls', but it's not happening now
For machines that operate on pure logic, computers can seem remarkably
illogical sometimes. Maybe bad vibes from your XP installation are
infecting your Linux installation and making it act like Microsoft
software? :-) Sorry, I haven't got a clue what happened there. Anyone else
care to suggest something?
Pigeon
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