On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:54:35 -0700 Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 21:31 -0500, Matt Considine wrote: > > > 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). > ---- > I guess I don't understand how you can keep asking for help when you > don't reveal the details of the problem. I will ask in another way? > > What is supposed to be on this /dev/hdd2 ? > > Is it formatted for vfat (fat32) filesystem? > > If not formatted for vfat (fat32) - what format did you choose when > you created it? EZ Drive might simply create the partition and not > format it for any particular purpose. > > Are there any files on this partition? Do you expect to find them? > > Craig I'm also confused. Do you want to access the data on the drive, or do you want to repartition and reformat this drive to use Linux? If it's the latter, Fedora's tools kind of suck (no cfdisk). Easiest solution I'm aware of is to download a Knoppix CD, boot it, and run cfdisk to repartition the hard drive (or else download a cfdisk rpm from somewhere). You then install a filesystem with a command like: mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdd1 Then you would mount it: mount /dev/hdd1 /somewhere You could mount it automatically on bootup by editing /etc/fstab. /dev/hdd1 /somewhere ext3 defaults 0 0 regards, Robert
