Re: Difficulty getting a large disk mounted

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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:13:24 -0700
From: Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Difficulty getting a large disk mounted.
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On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 18:22 -0500, Matt Considine wrote:

Hi,
I've checked the archives and cannot find commentary on this. Hoping I didn't overlook something, here goes ...

Running FC3 and Gnome, I am trying to get a third harddisk recognized. This one had a partition (11G) for the Win99 OS and the remaining partition was divided up into virtual drives. Total size is 60G if I recall.

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

These are associated with subdirectories, respectively,
  /mnt/boot
  /mnt/root

I can see the files on "boot" without a problem.  But I cannot
see the files on "root".

Can someone either tell me how or point me to the instructions to get
these files recognized?  When I type (as root)

  mount -t vfat /dev/hdd2 /mnt/root

I get the following message :
  mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd2,
         or too many mounted file systems

Any help would be appreciated, as well as everyone's patience if I missed something simple.

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I guess I don't understand exactly what you are saying.

I can see that there is a partition /dev/hdd2 but I don't understand
your comment about the rest of the the partition being divided into
virtual drives.

Then you say that you called these things /mnt/boot and /mnt/root
but /dev/hdd1 is fat32 so that hardly qualifies as a suitable partition
for a linux boot and /dev/hdd2 - at least on appearance doesn't have a
suitable filesystem at all. The free space leftovers seem to indicate
some type of funky partitioning tool was used. I am gathering that if
you did try to install a filesystem (sometimes called 'formatting' or
'initializing') that it didn't succeed.

If there is no valuable data on the /dev/hdd2, you could probably just
from command line...

mkfs -t [ext3|ext2|vfat] /dev/hdd2

I always had problems creating vfat partitions larger than 32mb. Perhaps
that is just me.

if you feel that you had indeed created a filesystem on /dev/hdd2 like
in Windows or something else and indeed have valuable data on that
drive, then re-examine by booting Windows or the tool you used to create
it and see if it's still there.

Craig

(apologies for the format of the prior response...)

It appears that the other harddisk was formatted using "EZ-Drive". A Google search doesn't seem to show anything discussing FC3's ability to
co-exist with this. Other than putting it into another system, booting, etc, etc, are there ideas? (Installing an NTFS driver was - predictably - of no help).

Matt