Difficulty getting a large disk mounted
C. Linus Hicks
lhicks at nc.rr.com
Tue Feb 22 17:29:41 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 15:54 +0000, Nigel Wade wrote:
> 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
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
---<snip>
> 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?
Have you considered using dd to make an image copy of the hdd2 partition
to a file? If it works, that should remove the issue of the EZ-Drive
partition table, but you would still have the issue of a vfat partition
larger than 32gb, so this may not be of any value. However, if you then
had a way of transferring the image to a windows system, although I
don't know of any way to loopback mount a filesystem under windows so
you would probably have to get it onto a physical drive.
--
C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com>
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