USB Hard Drive With Many Different Types of Partitions

atheist · 07-11-2008, 02:28 PM

I have a USB hard drive that has on it, many different types of partitions. Everthing from FAT32 to XFS to ReiserFS and ext2.

Thing is, when I try to mount it by doing:

Code:

mount -t auto /dev/uba1 /mnt/old1

It mounts just fine... Except the only thing that does mount is the FAT32 partition. The other ones don't appear at all.

Does anyone know how I can read the other partitions?

jiml8 · 07-11-2008, 02:37 PM

The mount command you gave says mount the first partition. Presumably that is what is happening.

To mount the others, you need to set up entries for them in /etc/fstab, mountpoints for them in /mnt, then mount them according to what filesystems they have on them.

If you have udev running, then it might be the system will do this for you, but I am not sure about the limitations associated with multiple different filesystems.

ramram29 · 07-11-2008, 02:52 PM

To view the partition definitions inside run:

fdisk -l /dev/uba

onebuck · 07-11-2008, 10:22 PM

Hi,

You could do a 'fdisk -l' and then mount explicitly.