Re: Mounting a win/dos logical partition

[Matthew Melvin <matthewm webcentral com au>]

On Tue, 1 May 2001 at 12:34am (-0500), Reuben D Budiardja wrote:

> 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?
>

"It looks bad Ray".  You're /dev/hdb2 doens't look right at all - See how
the start and end points of partition 2 and 5 are the same?  I suspect that
should be your extended parition but it's ID has been set to Win95. I doubt
you can mount /dev/hdb2 but try /dev/hdb5.  I don't know what to recomend if
your partition table looks screwy like that.  Maybe you can just set it back
to type 6 and all will be well but really all bets are off. :/

M.

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