I have a dual boot system with Fedora 6 & Windows 2000 Professional. I have several partitions in Windows that I would like to be able to mount from within Fedora. I've added the following line to the fstab file, and it mounts the Windows "C" drive partition in Fedora:
"/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat noauto 0 0"

I've tried various combinations of the above to get the "E" drive mounted, but nothing works. Can anyone help me out?
Thanks....

What is the output of:
# /sbin/fdisk -lu /dev/hda

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Thanks for showing me the syntax for this command. The output is below:

428 /root ->/sbin/fdisk -lu /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders, total 117210240 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 40965749 20482843+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 40965750 117210239 38122245 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 66573423 107539109 20482843+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 107539173 117210239 4835533+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 40965876 41174594 104359+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 41174658 66573359 12699351 8e Linux LVM

Partition table entries are not in disk order
429 /root ->

When I tried using "/dev/hda2 /mnt/win2 vfat noauto 0 0" I got the following error:
431 /root ->mount /mnt/win2
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
missing codepage or other error
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

432 /root ->

Look carefully at your partition table. /dev/hda2 is the EXTENDED partition. It is not a single partition, it contains all the non-primary partitons.

Try again with /dev/hda5

I am curious what happened to your hda3 and hda4.

Thanks for the information. What you say makes sense. I tried it with hda5 and it worked fine. I'm wondering the same thing about 3 & 4.

Logical partitions always start from 5.

From man fdisk: