On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 21:03, Hans Troost wrote: > Hi all, > > About a week ago Michael Schwendt helped me out after I used qtparted to create a FAT32 partition on my disk, which damaged my configuration. I had to change my grub.conf, the fstab etc.... (could not boot anymore). After that everything seems to work fine again, but... > > now some problems come up with my non-linux partitions: I mount them (also have the NTFS-driver installed), see them but... > > I don't see "normal" windows files on it (for example /dev/hda2 is my WinXP boot partition, working fine, /dev/hda10 contains some file I placed there with fedora, before the "crash") > The strange thing is: on the "non-linux" drives (both the NTFS and the VFAT ones) I see only the files that really are on /dev/hda9. > To be honest: /dev/hda9 indeed is the new VFAT-partition I created with qtparted, causing the "crash" > > The WinXP installation still works fine and I placed a partition-specific named, empty text-file on each partition, using WinXP. > The file on /dev/hda9 (called g-30.txt (G:-drive on windows, 30Gb) is shown on /dev/hda2, dev/hda5, dev/hda10 and /dev/hda11 as the only file (which is correct for /dev/hda9, is is the first and only file on it) > So it seems that the drives are no longer (as it was before the crash) correctly "mapped" > > So I think something more has gone wrong then I have repaired, following Michael Schwendt's instructions (thanks again Michael!!) > > This is my disk: > > fdisk -l output: > Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 192 1542208+ 12 Compaq diagnostics > /dev/hda2 193 1404 9735390 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda3 1405 19457 145010722+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hda5 1405 5400 32097838+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda6 5401 5413 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 5414 6718 10482381 83 Linux > /dev/hda8 6719 6972 2040223+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda9 15149 19065 31463271 b W95 FAT32 > /dev/hda10 19066 19457 3148708+ b W95 FAT32 > /dev/hda11 6973 10888 31455238+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > > This is /etc/fstab: > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,ro,umask=000 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,ro,umask=000 0 0 > /dev/hda9 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0 > /dev/hda10 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0 > /dev/hda11 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0 Why do you have 5 different partitions mounted at /mnt/windows? Only the last of them to be mounted will be visible (most likely /dev/hda9 from your description). Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
