Re: Mounting a win/dos logical partition

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

Uh, I just actually tried to mount to /dev/hdb5, and it worked. I can 
access my files there. I'm not really sure what happen. But I remember when 
I partitioned my HD with PQ magic, it says that win95 cannot handle more 
than 1 primary partition, that's why it then created an extended/logical 
partition (/dev/hdb2) and another partition under that extended partition 
so that win95 can access it.... somehow. When I did fdisk then, it looks 
like as if both /dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdb5 starts from the same point, but I 
think it was the PQ magic doing.

OK, I'm starting to confuse my self again, so I better stop :). Thanks 
Matthew for your help, I appreciated it.

Reuben D. Budiardja

At 03:51 PM 5/1/01 +1000, you wrote:
> 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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Reuben Donald Budiardja
reubendb goshen edu
Homepage: http://www.goshen.edu/~reubendb