Re: Mounting a win/dos logical partition

["Reuben D Budiardja" <reubendb goshen edu>]

OK, I'm still confused :).
I did fdisk -l /dev/hdb, and here is what I get:

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2480 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1      1023   8217216    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hdb2          1024      2480  11703352+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5          1024      2480  11703321    b  Win95 FAT32

Now, how do I mount /dev/hdb2? what should I write in /etc/fstab?

Thanks
Reuben D. Budiardja


At 02:39 PM 5/1/01 +1000, Matthew Melvin wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 at 11:30pm (-0500), Reuben D Budiardja wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > Could anyone help me in how to mount a logical dos/win95 logical partition
> > in linux? What line should be in the /etc/fstab?
> >
> > I have the following line in fstab
> > /dev/hdb2               /mnt/dos_b              msdos   noauto          0 0
> >
> > But when I tried to do: mount dos_b
> >
> > I get the following message:
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2,
> >         or too many mounted file systems
> >         (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
> >         instead of some logical partition inside?)
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> I think you're trying to do what the error message suggests you are.
> /dev/hdb2 is the extended partition.  I'm pretty sure logical partitions
> have numbers >= 5.  Eg...
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *         1         3     24066   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2             4      4462  35816917+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5             4       258   2048256   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6           259       513   2048256   83  Linux
> [...]
>
> If you do "fdisk -l /dev/hdb" you should see your list of partitions and
> types.
>
> M.
>
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Reuben Donald Budiardja
reubendb goshen edu
Homepage: http://www.goshen.edu/~reubendb