Re: windows partition not usable
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:45:05PM +0000, Hans-Gerhard Schrick wrote:
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda4 / reiserfs notail 0 1
> /dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/hda2 /mnt/win fat32 rw,noauto 0 0
> Here is my /etc/fstab. I don't remember, whether I wrote the last line
> by myself. But with the program testdisk partition 2 is a FAT32 LBA.
What error do you get when, as root, to run:
# mount /mnt/win
?
Also, while it should work, I think fat filesystems need some extra
parameters to take care of things like UID/GID and encoding (e.g. UTF
type) since fat doesn't know about either.
>
> TestDisk 6.5, Data Recovery Utility, October 2006
> Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
> http://www.cgsecurity.org
>
> Disk /dev/hda - 100 GB / 93 GiB - CHS 12161 255 63
> Current partition structure:
> Partition Start End Size in sectors
> 1 P Compaq Diagnostics 0 1 1 381 254 63 6136767
> 2 * FAT32 LBA 382 0 1 6239 254 63 94108770 [ACER]
> 3 P Linux Swap 6240 0 1 6435 254 63 3148740
> 4 P Linux 6436 0 1 12160 254 63 91972125
>
> Perhaps you know now, how I can bring my windows partition to work. I
> really only need it for dragon naturally speaking and cdex. I haven't
> tried grip yet.
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