> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:05:03 +0800 > From: Robert Storey <y2kbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Difficulty getting a large disk mounted > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: > <20050222210503.08d7edf8.y2kbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > 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 Sorry for creating any confusion. The drive has data on it that I want to move over to the FC3 system already installed. The data is in a Windows filesystem structure and I don't want to have to put it into another system, boot it, hook it up to the LAN, etc. I just want to get the existing FC3 system to recognize it so that I can pull the large files off that I need. Once that is accomplished, repartitioning it using and ext2 or ext3 filesystem would be perfectly fine. Imagine the situation as this : you've got a perfectly well- running FC3 installation. Now you need more diskspace. Someone hands you a harddisk that had Win98 and it's filestructure on it. The disk was formatted (apparently) using EZ-Drive. You are welcome to reformat the disk, but only after copying a number of files over to the FC3 installation. That's as clear as I can make the situation. TIA, Matt
