I'm having problems mounting an exteneded fat32 partition

I successfully mounted the logic (drive c with the following command

mount -l /dev/hda1 /opt

so then I thought ok, drive d,e, or f should work with

mount -l /dev/hda2 /opt
mount -l /dev/hda3 /opt
mount -l /dev/hda4 /opt

but they didn't I got an error message

so then I tried

mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /opt
mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /opt

and to still no avail

so I reffered to the internal documentation

man mount

and read it. and I just dont understand (or rather decypher what I need from it)

If there is any other way (easier or whatnot) please point it out to me.

I also took a look at automounting, it looked intresting but I didn't understand it either

Thanks

-John-e

Where the # after hda is the number of the you know.. hda2, hda3.. etc. The /mnt/windows is the directory you would need to mount it to for it to be able to read from. If you don't have that directory, just create it. Also you can edit your fstab so it automatically mounts these drives upon bootup.. so you don't have to do this every time.

Thanks but I seem to have the same problem

the error:

# mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)

and yes I did create the directory "windows" in the dir /mnt

BTW, I'm using the terminal as root just to see if it works, I hope that doesn't affect me

that you can't mount an extended partition, like the error message says. If you do:

# fdisk -l /dev/hda

and you get something like:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 319 2562336 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 336 1245 7309575 f Win95 Ext'd
(LBA)
/dev/hda3 320 335 128520 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda5 336 398 506016 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 734 1010 2224971 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 1011 1245 1887606 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 399 733 2690856 83 Linux

you can see that /dev/hda2 is an extended partition that encompasses hda5,6,7, and 8. You can mount /dev/hda5,6,7, or 8. Not hda2.

AW!! thats dirty!!!

heh

That really sucks if thats true

that would explain alot though...

Did you manage to get hda6 mounted? as you listed it was win95 fat32

because I can't get any of my extended partitions to mount

(my drive is one big 30 giger split 4 ways + linux partitions)

You can't mount extended partitions. Only primary and logical partitions. Primary and extended partitions are numbered 1-4. Logical partitions are numbered 5-15. An extended partition holds logical partitions. Think of it as a folder that holds the logical partitions.

Run the command fdisk -l /dev/hda like rolf suggested and post a copy of it.

Hrm well that solved the mystery thanks for everything

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 383 3076416 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 384 3739 26957070 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 384 766 3076416 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 1277 2485 9711261 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 2486 3739 10072723+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda8 767 773 56196 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 774 1197 3405748+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 1198 1230 265041 82 Linux swap

Do wish I could mount that Ext'd(LBA)
oh well

Thanks again everyone

you didn't quite get the picture.

As linuxcool says, the extended partition is like a folder that holds logical partitions; it's a bookkeeping mechanism for the partition table. You only need to mount the logical partitions and primary partitions to access all your data.

To answer your question, yes, my hda6, a second windows 98 partition, is mounted on /mnt/win_d, as Mandrake set it up when I installed Mandrake 8 after Windows existed.

Here is my /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/7.2 ext2 defaults,noauto 1 2
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/7.2home ext2 defaults,noauto 1 2
/dev/hdb7 /mnt/7.2usr ext2 defaults,noauto 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0
/dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_d vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0

What I did, when I wanted to add entries, was to copy the form of the other entries that were already in there. See also man fstab, man mount, man * If you go to editting fstab, be careful, as doing it wrong can make it not boot. Take a look at this other thread where I went into it a little:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&threadid=5107

Good luck.

Yeah I did misunderstand I was relating back to my Fdisk expereiences and trying to remember what everything was. For some reason I always get confused about it all.

I keep thinking
Logical is the main one
extended are the partitions. And of course I was wrong. Now I understand the extended is like a folder metaphor

thanks again everyone