Difficulty getting a large disk mounted

[Nigel Wade]

mconsidine at netreach.net wrote:
The hardware brower recognizes this as
> > > >>
> > > >>     Device Start End   Size(MB)  Type
> > > >>/dev/hdd
> > > >>     /hdd1  1     1460  11453     fat32
> > > >>            1     1460  11453     Free space
> > > >>     /hdd2  1461  7296  45779     No filesystem
> > > >>            7297  7298     10     Free space
> > > >>
> > > >>
> 
> Sorry for creating any confusion.
> 
> The drive has data on it that I want to move over to the FC3
> system already installed.  The data is in a Windows
> filesystem
> structure and I don't want to have to put it into another
> system, boot it, hook it up to the LAN, etc.  I just want to
> get the existing FC3 system to recognize it so that I can
> pull
> the large files off that I need.  Once that is accomplished,
> repartitioning it using and ext2 or ext3 filesystem would be
> perfectly fine.
> 
> Imagine the situation as this : you've got a perfectly well-
> running FC3 installation.  Now you need more diskspace. 
> Someone
> hands you a harddisk that had Win98 and it's filestructure
> on
> it.  The disk was formatted (apparently) using EZ-Drive. 
> You
> are welcome to reformat the disk, but only after copying a
> number of files over to the FC3 installation.
> 
> That's as clear as I can make the situation.
> 
> TIA,
> Matt
> 

According to installations instructions I found for EZ-Drive, you cannot use 
a EZ-Drive formatted disk with anything but Windows. From the partition 
table you showed earlier that would seem to be the case. /dev/hdd1 shows as 
FAT32 and may be ok, but the rest of the partition table doesn't make a lot 
of sense.

What do you get if you run 'fdisk -l /dev/hdd' from a command line?


-- 
Nigel Wade