Message: 2 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:13:24 -0700 From: Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Difficulty getting a large disk mounted. To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <1109031204.5261.8.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain
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.
----- 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
